Father Ted co-creator Graham Linehan has had his conviction for damaging a transgender activist's mobile phone overturned.
Last November, Linehan was convicted of criminal damage, but was cleared of harassing Sophia Brooks on social media.
The criminal damage case related to a confrontation between Linehan and Brooks in October 2024, outside the Battle of Ideas conference in London.
At the end of an appeal hearing at London's Southwark Crown Court on Friday, Justice Amanda Tipples said: "Having considered all the evidence before us, we cannot be sure that the damage to the complainant's phone was caused by Mr Linehan... We therefore found Mr Linehan not guilty of the offence."
The original trial in November heard that Brooks, a trans woman who was 17 at the time, confronted Linehan and filmed him outside the conference.
