Graham Linehan “Will Face no Further Action” Over Trans Tweets That Saw Him Arrested by Armed Police at Heathrow Airport
Father Ted creator Graham Linehan says he faces no further police action over trans tweets that saw him arrested by armed officers at Heathrow airport – but pledges to hold the police “accountable” for trying to silence him. The Mail has more.
The Irish comedy writer, 57, was met by armed police when he touched down at Heathrow Airport last month from Arizona in the US and detained on suspicion of inciting violence.
He has now posted on X, formerly Twitter: “The police have informed my lawyers that I face no further action in respect of the arrest at Heathrow in September.
“After a successful hearing to get my bail conditions lifted (one which the police officer in charge of the case didn’t even bother to attend) the Crown Prosecution Service has dropped the case.
“With the aid of the Free Speech Union, I still aim to hold the police accountable for what is only the latest attempt to silence and suppress gender critical voices on behalf of dangerous and disturbed men.”
A Crown Prosecution Service spokesperson said: “Following careful review of a file submitted by the Metropolitan Police, we have decided that no further action should be taken in relation to a man in his 50s who was arrested on September 1st 2025.”
Mr Linehan, currently living across the Atlantic, later declared he would no longer want to return to Britain after his arrest that was met with fury from high-profile figures such as Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling who came to his support by branding the detention “utterly deplorable”.
Linehan, who also co-wrote and directed sitcoms such as Black Books, The IT Crowd and Count Arthur Strong, was detained in relation to three tweets which police deemed to warrant an arrest on suspicion of inciting violence.
The first, from April 20th, read: “If a trans-identified male is in a female-only space, he is committing a violent, abusive act. Make a scene, call the cops and if all else fails, punch him in the balls.”
A second tweet, on April 19th, was a picture of a trans rally with the caption: “A photo you can smell.” The third was a follow-up to this tweet which said: “I hate them. Misogynists and homophobes. F*** em.”
The writer was heard audibly fuming in disbelief when he was stopped by armed officers at the west London airport.
He told them: “I’m a f****** comedy writer, I wrote Father Ted. Are you a f****** idiot?… It’s just disgraceful.”
When told he was under arrest, Linehan shouted: “Holy s***, I don’t f****** believe it, do you know what this country looks like to America?” before telling them “I’m going to sue you into the ground”.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: The Metropolitan Police – Britain’s biggest police force – has announced it will no longer investigate non-crime hate incidents in a significant victory for free speech.
The FSU tweeted:
Great news that the @metpoliceuk will no longer investigate non-crime hate incidents – a direct result of our successful campaign to get the Met to drop its investigation of @glinner, which it has now done.
This is a tremendous victory, but the war is not yet over. We now have to make sure all the other police forces in the UK follow in the Met’s footsteps and they all now stop recording NCHIs, including the Met, in a way that means they can show up in enhanced DBS checks and prevent you from getting a job as a teacher or a carer. No one should be prevented from getting a job because they’ve committed a ‘non-crime’.
Nevertheless, this is an important step on the road to scrapping NCHIs altogether, something our Director, Lord Young of Acton, called for in the House of Lords last Thursday. He has proposed an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill, co-sponsored by Lord Hogan-Howe, a former Metropolitan Police Commissioner, to abolish NCHIs.
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Process = Punishment (and they don’t need any law, just the power of arrest).
Indeed.
Incidentally this was the standard tactic during the softer years of the communist regimes.
But remember we live (as it was repeated ad nauseum during the rona medical nazism) in a thriving democracy, full of tolerance, free speech and opportunity.
Absolutely. Just like the constitution of the communist countries guaranteed all sorts of rights: freedom of speech, independence of the judiciary, and so on.
On paper it looked good. Just as long as you didn’t try to use those rights.
Yes, like Chairman Mao’s ” Hundred Flowers Campaign … that allowed Chinese citizens to offer criticism and advice to the government and the party…” in 1956-1957.
He soon got tired of criticism, though, and in 1957-1959… “Citizens were rounded up in waves by the hundreds of thousands, publicly criticized during ‘struggle sessions’, and condemned to prison camps for re-education through labour or execution.”
Was it? That’s very interesting— I did not know that.
There is absolutely no reason whatsoever that the police could not taken action and reached that same conclusion WITHOUT arresting Linehan or even bothering him.
And that is true of every time they knock on someone’s door to “enquire” about a social media post.
The police in Britain are acting like paramilitary thugs and every time they do so their credibility and their reputation goes a little further down the toilet.
It puzzles me how they can get police officers to behave in this way. Surely they muat realise that they are damaging their own country, where their own kids will be growing up. Are they that brainwashed?
A good friend of mine grew up in communist Czechoslovakia and said that back in the latter days of said regime virtually everybody knew the system was rotten but nobody dared speak up in public. The police, the army, the institutions, they all knew it was humbug. The media and the teachers knew they were lying. Their readers of the newspapers knew they were reading lies. It was just a huge masquerade. People went to the factories and pretended to work but nobody actually put their heart into it. This was why the economy was in such dire straits in the final years. But nobody wanted to be the first to say so for risk of the consequences. And so people who knew it was humbug were kept busy pretending to suppress other people who pretended to work because they too knew it was humbug, and so they all slowly eroded the system from inside. This is why the velvet revolution happened so suddenly. Once the dam broke and people realized there were too many of them and they could not all be punished, there was no need to go on pretending. The government couldn’t have sent in the police… Read more »
Exactly. My father left Prague for Leeds via Istanbul in 1973. He puts it in much the same way. It happens suddenly, but it takes a looooong time to reach that point. I wonder where the UK is on the timeline. Or any country, for that matter.
i think we are not too far off. People in general don’t want violence and want to be left alone. It takes a lot to get people to stand up, but I have a feeling it is very much bubbling under the surface.
Raising the flag was a manifestation of public discontent in a non-violent way. The opposition to digital ID will be another one.
i cannot understand the Westminster bubble. They must realise the issues. Or do they think it isn’t as bad as all that?
In some ways I welcome the attempt to introduce digital ID as it might force things to boil over. At best, you might then have national strikes, at worst civil unrest. Things cannot continue as they are and something has to happen to change things.
Speaking of ”trans-identified males” and ”violent, abusive acts”, this walking freak show is supposedly entitled to use our female-only private spaces. This incredibly warped and dangerous individual shouldn’t be allowed outside of a high security mental facility, in my opinion; ”An extremely violent transgender inmate has been released onto the streets of Limerick, Ireland, after serving a short sentence for threatening to rape and murder his own mother. Barbie Kardashian, born Gabriel Alejandro Gentile, had served part of his sentence at a women’s prison. Kardashian, who has been described as a risk to public safety, served two years and six months of a five and a half year sentence, of which the final twelve months were suspended. He has reportedly been released with “strict” conditions, and will be provided housing in Dublin. After being released, Kardashian, accompanied by a small white dog and wearing a pink shirt and breast forms, spoke to Gript columnist Paddy O’Gorman and expressed a desire to track down his mother and father to murder them. Speaking casually, he expressed no remorse and suggested that if he cannot find his parents, he will go on to murder someone else instead. “I enjoy the impact that my actions have caused. I enjoy… Read more »
Make Asylums Great Again.
That’s good news! And a great photo of him.
Indeed. Managed to capture all that wonderful character without making him look like a violent Literally Hitler, as so many of MSM’s choices of photo do.
Heck, MSM can make anyone look like a violent Literally Hitler if it means being better able to satisfy their overlords.
Imagine this is more about the likely exponential increase in islamic hatred or Jews in the London area then any concerns for free speech.
The met have logged NCIHs for years gleefully, why would the y give it up unless it had become inconvenient in their favoured islamic direction?
Get in there.
Hope to meet you again soon, Glinner.
So … the militant Trans Activists and the Woke Police have
And now they say “no charge” and we won’t do it again.
I hope he sues them and gets £millions.
All existing NCHI’s recorded against individuals should be removed.
“Following careful review of a file submitted by the Metropolitan Police…”
Perhaps if the MP had “carefully” reviewed the situation right at the start, this whole absurdity would not have taken place.