Graham Linehan arrested at Heathrow over his X posts

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1. Here’s [the tweet](https://lucyfromnaarm.com/p/former-comedian-graham-linehan-arrested):

   >If a [trans woman] is in a female-only space, [s]he is committing a violent, abusive act. Make a scene, call the cops and if all else fails, punch [her] in the balls.”

   The author added all the square brackets, and he has been banned from using Twitter

   >The Metropolitan Police have not commented on the arrest. Linehan has been bailed with conditions preventing him from using Twitter (X), and must return for further questioning in October.

2. Losing his wife and kids wasn’t enough.
   Losing most of his friends wasn’t enough.
   Having all previous colleagues ignore him wasn’t enough.

   He wants jail, give him jail. Might get the mental health treatment he sorely needs.

3. I really don’t like the idea of anyone being arrested over a tweet – and besides, Linehan is doing a perfectly good job of ruining his career on his own without the law being involved.

4. Linehan is a cunt but yay for arresting people for tweets I guess

5. He was literally asking people to punch women who they don’t think look feminine enough. So yeah not surprising he got arrested!

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7. Something tells me this won’t be an ecumenical matter

8. Well there is a difference between speech and incitement. ‘I don’t believe x is y’ shouldn’t be an arrestable offence. Inviting people to assault random strangers should.

9. he’s in court for harassment and criminal damage on Thursday too! He would’ve been coming back to the UK for this court case when he got arrested for yet more poor behaviour. The man deserves bad things.

10. A woman is going to get assaulted for not looking femenine enough. I wonder if Linehan will be cheering that on.

11. Linehan is a knob with poor self-control and his own worst enemy.

    But before this thread descends into festival of gloating, here is some useful context:

    The arrest is the result of a complaint from former PC Linsay Watson, a transwoman and deeply disturbed individual. Watson was sacked from her job as a WPC with Leicestershire police for gross misconduct after posting thousands of abusive and defamatory messages at members of the gender critical campaign group Fair Cop, under a variety fake persona. She reported former police officer Harry Miller to the anti-terror police 60 times, and fabricated quotes from him threatening violence against women. She has also reported the barrister Sarah Phillimore innumerable times to the bar standards association, to no avail. Since losing their job, Watson is now a full-time vexatious complainant, and this is the second time her complaints have resulted in an arrest. It’s unlikely to go anywhere.

    Linsay Watson needs help, not encouragement.

12. Has J K Rowling sent him loads of money for a lawyer yet?

13. Ridiculous overreach by the police, wasting resources on something they should never have got involved with.

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