Graham Linehan will face no additional motion after being arrested over social media posts about transgender folks.
The Father Ted and IT Crowd creator stated his attorneys had been informed the case would not proceed. The Crown Prosecution Service confirmed the transfer.
Linehan was arrested on suspicion of inciting violence when he landed at Heathrow from his house within the US on 1 September.
The incident drew criticism of the police and authorities from some politicians and supporters.
Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley stated his officers had been in an “impossible position” and shouldn’t be “policing toxic culture wars debates”.
Posting on X, Linehan, 57, stated: “After a successful hearing to get my bail conditions lifted (one which the police officer in charge of the case didn’t even bother to attend) the Crown Prosecution Service has dropped the case.
“With assistance from the Free Speech Union, I nonetheless intention to carry the police accountable for what is simply the newest try to silence and suppress gender essential voices on behalf of harmful and disturbed males.”
The union stated it had employed a “top flight team of lawyers to sue the Met for wrongful arrest, among other things”.
“The police need to be taught a lesson that they cannot allow themselves to be continually manipulated by woke activists,” it added.
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A Crown Prosecution Service spokesperson confirmed it had fastidiously reviewed the police file and determined “no further action should be taken”.
In one of many posts he was questioned about, Linehan wrote: “If a trans-identified male is in a female-only space, he is committing a violent, abusive act. Make a scene, call the cops and if all else fails, punch him in the balls.”
He stated on his weblog that 5 armed officers had been concerned in his arrest, and that he needed to go to A&E after his blood stress reached “stroke territory” throughout his interrogation.
Police stated the officers’ weapons had been by no means drawn and had been solely current as Linehan was detained by the aviation unit, which routinely carries firearms.
Harry Potter creator JK Rowling, who’s usually shared her views on ladies’s rights in relation to transgender rights, known as the arrest “utterly deplorable”.
Reform chief Nigel Farage, shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick, and senior Tory Sir James Clevery had been among the many politicians who additionally criticised the incident.
