Following Rowling’s tweet, Shay faced a deluge of homophobic, racist, transphobic and Islamophobic posts. He tagged Rowling in many of the replies he received. Aside from calling @pup_shay numerous slurs, Shay says he also received death threats following Rowling’s highlighting of his profile picture and user name.
It’s almost impossible to win against the rich in a court, they can drag things on far beyond what a normal person can afford to keep up.
Some barrister has to hate that fuckwit enough to do it cheap/pro bono.