Father Ted co-creator Graham Linehan said he was arrested at Heathrow airport over three X posts expressing his views on trans issues.<\/p>\n
The 57-year-old said he was detained by five armed officers after flying in from Arizona and told he was under arrest over the social media entries.<\/p>\n
Linehan said he was taken to a cell and then questioned over the X posts, published in April.<\/p>\n
One said: \u201cIf 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.\u201d <\/p>\n
The writer said after questioning by police his blood pressure had reached \u201cstroke territory\u201d and he was taken to hospital and kept under observation, before being released on bail.<\/p>\n
The Met Police did not identify Linehan but a spokeswoman said: \u201cOn Monday, September 1st at 1pm officers arrested a man at Heathrow airport after he arrived on an inbound American Airlines flight.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe man in his 50s was arrested on suspicion of inciting violence. This is in relation to posts on X.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter being taken to police custody, officers became concerned for his health and he was taken to hospital. His condition is neither life-threatening nor life-changing.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe has now been bailed pending further investigation.\u201d <\/p>\n
Separately, Linehan is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates\u2019 Court on Thursday accused of harassing transgender woman Sophia Brooks and damaging her phone, which he denies. \u2013 PA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Father Ted co-creator Graham Linehan said he was arrested at Heathrow airport over three X posts expressing his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,29684,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-38579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-graham-linehan","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}