Graham Linehan says he doesn’t regret posts about trans people after Heathrow arrest
The 57 -year -old Irish comedian was arrested by five armed officers last week due to suspicion of provoking violence at Heathrow Airport.
One of the posts in X said: “If a transmigrated man is only in a field for women, he takes a violent, abusive action. Do a scene, call the cops and if everything fails, punch him to the balls.”
Speaking with BBC, Mr. Linehan said, “I don’t regret anything I’ve tweeted – sometimes I tweeted a little more than anger because of the frustration that no one doesn’t pay attention to this issue.”
The arrest led to the reactions of politicians and public opinion figures that called the President of the Metropolitan Police Sir Mark Rowley and the government to “change or clarify the law”.
Reminding his arrest, Mr. Linehan said that when his flight from Arizona landed on September 1, he said, “something was over ,, but no one was allowed to stand up.
Im I didn’t expect this to happen to what it was. And then they called my name, and I think I immediately knew what would happen, ”he said.
In a clip published online, Linehan may hear that he reacts by not being able to believe while being stopped by civil servants.
A officer says: “I am forgive ****** I write comedy, I wrote Father Ted. AF ****** Are you stupid?… This is just embarrassing. “
Linehan can be heard after a short time: “I have left over.
Now he said that he would sue the police for “false arrest and wrong imprisonment”.
When asked whether the tone of the shipments could be defined as aggressive and tried to özgü a little lower the temperature ,, “I tried it several times, but you will always be greeted with a slap on your face.
“So if people come to me in good faith, I will talk to them in good faith. If people insult me, I will insult them.”
One of the posts included a photograph of a trans-righteous protest with the interpretation of a photo you can smell ”: orum I hate them. Misogynists and homophobes. F *** Em.”
He said he would never return to England since then, and now he said he found the country a “cultural desert”.
He talked about the effect of “cancellation”, and said that he was “disgusted olmayan by his former colleagues in comedy and theater, which protects and defends him.
“I destroyed my career, mine [upcoming Father Ted] He was taken to musical, I took my marriage. I don’t know why people expect me to be sunlight and roses. ”
Separately. Linehan also faces separate charges of harassing a transsexual activist on social media between 11 October and October 27 last year, and on 19 October last year’s criminal damage to mobile phone. He rejects the charges.
The hearing was postponed and will continue on October 29 and Linehan was released on bail.
