A defence lawyer took exception when an alleged victim of Twitter harassment rolled her eyes at questions during a cross-examination on Thursday, amid a heated day of testimony.

The first complainant in the case, Stephanie Guthrie, spent the entire day testifying about tweets between her and Gregory Alan Elliott, who is charged with three counts of criminal harassment.

At one point Guthrie rolled her eyes after Elliott’s attorney, Chris Murphy, asked about the left-leaning politics of three city councillors Guthrie had as part of a panel in May 2012.

“Why would you roll your eyes at a trial where my client faces serious charges of criminal harassment?” Murphy said, anger rising.

“I don’t see the relevance of what way politicians lean,” Guthrie shot back.

Murphy was trying to make the point that Guthrie didn’t like Elliott’s politics, who told reporters on break he is a conservative who likes to “peel back Liberal spin.”

Guthrie and Elliott met in real life over dinner on Dundas St. W. in April 2012 to discuss his doing some work for her organization, “Women in TO politics.” She told court Wednesday she was “creeped out” by Elliott at dinner because he was “really intense.”

Guthrie decided not to work with Elliott and told him so over email, which showed a seemingly cordial back-and-forth.

Guthrie told court the emails “sound like a man who’s masking some anger.”

Earlier, Guthrie spent several hours reading tweets Elliott had sent over the course of nearly 10 months. The relationship over Twitter continued with many tweets from both parties.

But the relationship soured after a video game appeared online showing the face of a woman who could be punched and bruised.

Guthrie, like many others online, took exception to the game and used Twitter to protest the game and its Ontario creator, Ben Spurr.

“I want his hatred on the Internet to impact his real-life experience,” Guthrie wrote on Twitter in July 2012.

Elliott felt Guthrie and others were ganging up on Spurr and unleashed a series of tweets saying so. Guthrie blocked him from communicating with her on Twitter, but she could still read tweets that mentioned her user name.

Shortly after, Elliott created the Twitter hashtag #FascistFeminists in relation to Guthrie and her friends.

One of Elliott’s final tweets involving Guthrie was in response to another person calling him a “perv and a sad little man.” He answered: “You are wrong on all counts. Go listen to (Guthrie) play her s--- music in crappy bars with your loser faux-feminist friends.”

The tweets from Elliott didn’t stop until his arrest in November 2012.

Murphy will continue his cross examination of Guthrie on Friday.

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