{"id":288005,"date":"2025-07-24T13:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T13:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/288005\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T13:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T13:27:10","slug":"comedian-susan-riddell-cancels-fringe-show-after-terror-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/288005\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedian Susan Riddell cancels Fringe show after terror charge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comedian Susan Riddell has cancelled her Edinburgh Fringe show because she cannot travel into the city under bail conditions imposed after a van was allegedly driven into a defence factory fence.<\/p>\n

Ms Riddell was one of three women arrested in connection with the incident at Leonardo UK’s facility on Crewe Road North last week. <\/p>\n

At a private hearing via videolink at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Monday, she made no plea to a charge of malicious mischief, aggravated by having a “terrorist connection”.<\/p>\n

Her new show How Do You Sleep at Night?<\/a> had been due to run for a month at the festival, which begins next week.<\/p>\n

Ms Riddell is a regular panellist on BBC Scotland’s Breaking the News and The Good, the Bad and the Unexpected, and recently presented BBC Edinburgh Unlocked. <\/p>\n

She has also written and starred in her own BBC mini-sitcom pilot Dregs.<\/p>\n

In an Instagram post, Ms Riddell said: “Thanks to everyone who has shared my Edinburgh fringe show but unfortunately due to bail conditions I’m barred from Edinburgh for the foreseeable so I won’t be doing my show.”<\/p>\n

The Glasgow-based comedian’s hour-long show had a 19:15 slot at Monkey Barrel at The Tron from 28 July until 24 August.<\/p>\n

However, her bail conditions have restricted her travel into the capital. <\/p>\n

She was charged alongside Allegra Fitzherbert, 34, of London, and Naomi Stubbs-Gorman, 31, of Glasgow – all of whom made no pleas at the court hearing. <\/p>\n

Ms Riddell was also charged with an offence under the Road Traffic Act 1988 which was “aggravated by reason of having a terrorist connection”.<\/p>\n

The Shut Down Leonardo campaign had said it was protesting against the company’s laser targeting system, which it claims is used by the Israeli military.<\/p>\n

Leonardo said it does not supply equipment directly to Israel and that its main customer is the UK’s armed forces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Comedian Susan Riddell has cancelled her Edinburgh Fringe show because she cannot travel into the city under bail…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[4080,77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-288005","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114908446255932816","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}