Father Ted creator Graham Linehan has been paid £25,000 in compensation by the Metropolitan Police after officers arrested him for his gender-critical posts.
The 58-year-old writer was detained by five armed police after landing at London Heathrow Airport last September over three posts on X about transgender issues.
Linehan, who had been flying in from Arizona, was arrested on suspicion of inciting violence and questioned after transgender activist Lynsay Watson raised a complaint.
One post by Linehan, who is now a prominent anti-transgender activist, said: ‘If a trans-identified male is in a female-only space, he is committing a violent, abusive act. Make a
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