Graham Linehan has accused the police of “acting as a group of errand boys for trans activists” as he reveals he will be suing them over his arrest.
Speaking on GB News Graham Linehan said:
“I would be more relieved and excited about it had I not expected it to be dropped, because it was so absurd. The whole thing was so absurd. We just had our hearing to get the bail conditions dropped, and the policeman who was in charge of the investigation didn’t even turn up, which the judge pilloried him for.
“It’s so ridiculous, so absurd, that I just thought wiser heads would prevail.
“The health scare that I had while I was there, I think when they finally released me, I think they just were a bit nervous I’d die under their care.
“It’s a culmination of years of this kind of thing. Trans activists are trans activists. They’re very vindictive. They’re very violent. They use all sorts of means to get people’s home addresses and things like this.
“They don’t need the police helping them. I’ve now had three people tell me that trans activists did not know their address until they gave it to police officers, and after that, trans activists did know their address.
“So something very, very strange is happening there. I’d like to get to the bottom of it, but I doubt we will. I do think that they should be raked over the coals for basically acting as a group of errand boys for trans activists. It’s not their job.
“I think [Non Crime Hate Incidents] will trundle along for a while. The kind of abuse that the police were participating in, you also see it in the way that my story is reported by, for instance today, I think on radio four.
“I was called all the usual names by the journalists. My ability to work is still affected, so for me, it just goes on really.
“The police were one of the first things that were used against me by one of these guys, and they really frightened my wife when they came to our house.
“What we’re suing them for is not just this one incident, in my mind. This is for everything they’ve done to be over the last eight years.
“I went back to them with complaint after complaint. They never acted on them, and they let these men behave in the most appalling way to their victims, and they should answer for it.
“When Americans already have the idea that England is a free speech desert, and then when the first thing a bunch of Americans saw when the plane landed in the UK was a comedian being arrested, it’s ridiculous.
“I think it’s been a bit of an unfortunate episode; unfortunately for me, it has also helped cement my reputation, which has been blackened by trans activists down through the years.
“The police just don’t need to be helping these men. They can abuse people, harass people, without the actual long arm of the law helping them out.
“That’s one reason why I’m over in Arizona. I’m writing away, we’ve finished the sitcom, we’ve just written a film, and I’m about to sit down and get going on another one. I’m enjoying my bit of free space now because I know I won’t be arrested at any moment. So it’s easier to write, it’s easier to relax.”