The trial of the Father Ted co-creator Graham Linehan has heard that a transgender activist was deliberately provocative at a "Battle of Ideas' conference in London last year.
Graham Linehan is accused of harassing a transgender woman, named Sophia Brooks, between October 11th and 27th last year.
He is also accused of damaging her phone.
The incidents are alleged to have happened at a "Battle of Ideas" conference. He denies the charges.
During today's hearing at Westminster Magistrates' Court, witness Kate Harris of LGB Alliance told the court that Sophia Brooks was deliberately provocative at the event.
She said that Ms Brooks took photos of audience members and panelists at the event in an "intimidatory" way and used her camera as a "weapon".
It felt "intrusive and aggressive", Ms Harris told the court.
The incident occurred during a panel discussion on gender critical issues.
Graham Linehan appeared at today's trial via video link from the US, positing last night on social media that he was unable to attend in person due to travel problems.
Last month his legal team put it to Sophia Brooks that she deliberately attended the conference to annoy, irritate and harass the people there. The now 18-year-old denied the accusation.
Prior to the trial commencing, both parties agreed that the prosecution would refer to Sophia Brooks according to their affirmed gender, in accordance with the Crown Prosecution Service equality statement.
The defence referred to the complainant as a male.
Today, the judge reiterated that "no party will seek to police the other sides use of language".
In closing arguments, the prosecution said that Graham Linehan's actions in taking and throwing Sophia Brook's phone were not taken to prevent a crime.
The prosecution, led by Julia Faure Walker, described Mr Linehan's social media posts about the complainant as "oppressive".
Ms Faure Walker told the court that Mr Linehan had referred to Sophia Brooks as a "sissy porn-watching scumbag", a "groomer" and a "disgusting incel".
"It's a very disturbing and abusive choice of words to level at a young trans activist," Julia Faure Walker told the court.
She accepted that while Sophia Brook's behaviour may have been "annoying" and "insulting", it was not criminal.
"It's obvious that Mr Linehan was angry and found Ms Brooks annoying. Being annoying is not a criminal offence," she said.
Ms Faure Walker also told the court that Graham Linehan "must have known that his actions carried a risk of causing damage" to Ms Brooks's phone.
In her closing remarks, Graham Linehan's lawyer, Sarah Vine KC, said Ms Brooks had followed "a course of conduct designed both to provoke and to harass Mr Linehan".
She said there is "a doubt, and a reasonable one at that", whether marks on Ms Brooks's phone were caused by Mr Linehan's actions.
Ms Vine also submitted that the Father Ted co-creator's conduct had not crossed the appropriate legal threshold to be counted as harassment.
"The conduct complained of fails to cross the threshold from the annoying, unattractive or irritating or indeed to the downright offensive, to cross the threshold to the oppressive and unacceptable," she told the court.
Ms Vine went on to question whether Ms Brooks was actually alarmed or distressed by Mr Linehan's behaviour and online posts.
The activist made no mention of his conduct when she initially reported damage to her phone to police, the court was told.
