Who is Graham Linehan? Father Ted co-creator reveals being taken into custody over three X tweets.

Irish writer Graham Linehan was taken into custody by five armed police officers at London’s Heathrow Airport. The writer revealed the news on his Substack account, where he wrote:

"They escorted me to a private area and told me I was under arrest for three tweets. In a country where paedophiles escape sentencing, where knife crime is out of control, where women are assaulted and harassed every time they gather to speak, the state had mobilised five armed officers to arrest a comedy writer for this tweet (and no, I promise you, I am not making this up."

Graham Linehan was arrested over three tweets about gender identity. One of his tweets read:

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"

His another tweet read:

"I hate them. Misogynists and homophobes"

In another statement on Substack, he wrote:

"I was arrested at an airport like a terrorist, locked in a cell like a criminal, taken to hospital because the stress nearly killed me, and banned from speaking online—all because I made jokes that upset some psychotic crossdressers."

The 57-year-old was born in Dublin and has been working in the industry since 1991. Linehan married English writer and television producer Helen Serafinowicz in 2004. However, the couple got divorced after almost 16 years of marriage in 2020. He is also a father to two children, Wendy Linehan and Henry Linehan.

Famous works of Graham Linehan

Some of the most popular projects of Graham Linehan include Motherland and The IT Crowd, where he worked as a writer, producer, and director. On his other project, Father Ted, he worked as a writer and an associate producer, and in Black Books, he was a director and a writer, which added to his recognition.

According to IMDb, his first project was the TV series The Day Today, released in 1994. He has over 38,000 Substack subscribers and ranks #7 on the platform’s Rising in Culture list.

How was Graham Linehan granted bail?

The long Substack post, uploaded by Graham on his account, also explained the bail conditions. The statement read:

"I looked at the single bail condition: I am not to go on Twitter. That's it. No threats, no speeches about the seriousness of my crimes—just a legal gag order designed to shut me up while I’m the UK, and a demand I face a further interview in October."

Author of Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling, also wrote on X, in reference to Graham's arrest: