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Well, well, well. After disgracing Britain’s proud policing tradition by arresting Graham Linehan over his trans tweets, the Met Police has now found a rather expensive way to say sorry. The force has paid the Father Ted co-creator £25,000 in compensation.
Linehan was disgracefully detained by five armed officers at Heathrow Airport in September last year. Fresh off a ten-hour flight from Arizona, the writer was told he was being arrested on suspicion of inciting violence over social media posts critical of trans activism. He was bundled into a police van, taken to a nearby station and held for an eye-watering 12 hours.
In a letter to Linehan seen by The Telegraph, a senior officer admitted to ‘shortcomings in the investigation, the arrest and the imposition of bail conditions’. The letter added:
We apologise to you for those shortcomings and for the distress and inconvenience which he suffered as a result.
