Graham Linehan erhält nach seiner Festnahme 25.000 Pfund Entschädigung und eine Entschuldigung von der Met-Polizei
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/jul/09/graham-linehan-25000-compensation-apology-metropolitan-police-arrest
Von pppppppppppppppppd
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The police can’t help but keep giving idiots easy wins, can they?
Good, can’t be infringing on people’s rights like they did whether you agree with what he said or not.
>The third, on 20 April, said: “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.”
>Linehan insisted at the time that while he may have been guilty of making a “bad joke”, he had not been aiming to encourage violence.
So, just to make sure I’m keeping up with the law; does this mean I’m now free to say something like „Punch a TERF in the balls“ without it being seen as inciting violence?
Speaking as a woman who was randomly physically assaulted in London and told my case couldn’t be investigated whatsoever because there weren’t the resources, I struggle to understand why so many resources were used to arrest, hold and question Lineham, rather than even just invite him in for a brief interview.
Saying, „The Met no longer investigates non-crime hate incidents,“ doesn’t really explain that massive resource allocation.
Do all alleged actual crime hate crimes receive this level of priority and arrests, even where they’re less serious than physical assaults? Who decides which cases warrant that response, and how do we know those decisions and police resources are applied consistently and fairly across different groups?
Pretty insane that it’s now not only legal to incite violence, as long as that incitement is specifically targeted at the trans community, but you’ll also get paid by the police for the inconvenience of them having to deal with that incitement to violence in the same way as if it were targeted at any other group.
There should be another 0 on the end of that given the defamation of character that resulted in the media.
>Any person who sends to another person—
>(a)a [F1letter, electronic communication or article of any description] which conveys—
>(i)a message which is indecent or grossly offensive;
>F2(ii). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
>F3(iii). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
>(b)any [F4article or electronic communication] which is, in whole or part, of an indecent or grossly offensive nature,
>is guilty of an offence if his purpose, or one of his purposes, in sending it is that it should, so far as falling within paragraph (a) or (b) above, cause distress or anxiety to the recipient or to any other person to whom he intends that it or its contents or nature should be communicated.
Guess the law doesn’t apply if the victim is trans… figures…
£25000…. Wonder if that’s enough to get a new wife and kids?
Good! Hope we are finally moving in the right direction
I’m in need of money right now so Met can you arrest me? I say shit from time to time and there was one time where you kicked the doors out at 4am but you got the wrong address so…money pwease?
I don’t understand why someone should be arrested for something they wrote and then not charged, unless their defence is that they didn’t write it.
Can someone please explain how this is a possibility? Other than to use the arrest as a form of non-judicial punishment.
Man’s a complete twat but you can’t go round arresting people for being twats.
The trouble with defending free speech is that most of the people you have to defend are twats.