LONDON (Reuters) -Graham Linehan, the Irish co-creator of TV comedy show “Father Ted”, said on Monday he would face no further action following his arrest earlier this year in relation to posts about transgender issues on X.
Linehan, who has been a vocal critic of transgender activism in recent years, said in September he had been arrested at London’s Heathrow Airport on suspicion of inciting violence after arriving in Britain from the United States.
The arrest gained widespread attention after it was seized on by free speech advocates, and was even mentioned in front of a U.S. Congress committee by Nigel Farage, the leader of the populist Reform UK party.
“The police have informed my lawyers that I face no further action in respect of the arrest at Heathrow,” Linehan, 57, said in a post on X.
The Crown Prosecution Service said in a statement that it had decided that no further action should be taken.
(Reporting by William James; editing by Michael Holden)
