From: the_todal@icloud.com 
  
 On 05/09/2025 11:45, JNugent wrote: 
 > On 05/09/2025 09:56 AM, Roger Hayter wrote: 
 >> On 4 Sep 2025 at 23:28:00 BST, "JNugent"  wrote: 
 >> 
 >>> On 04/09/2025 11:07 PM, The Todal wrote: 
 >>> 
 >>>> On 04/09/2025 12:14, JNugent wrote: 
 >>>>> On 04/09/2025 11:45 AM, Jon Ribbens wrote: 
 >>>>>> On 2025-09-04, Clive Page  wrote: 
 >>>> 
 >>>>>>> One can see that if you are police officer it's a much more exciting 
 >>>>>>> way to spend your day dashing onto the runway at Heathrow in a car 
 >>>>>>> with blue lights flashing along with four colleagues all brandishing 
 >>>>>>> guns than trying to investigating a real crime, which might, for 
 >>>>>>> example, involve watching a lot of boring CCTV footage.€€ So one 
 >>>>>>> can see their point of view, it's just not something that most of 
 >>>>>>> the public would support. 
 >>>> 
 >>>>>> Did any of that actually happen, or did you make it up? 
 >>>> 
 >>>>> You haven't been following the news, then? 
 >>>> 
 >>>> Can anyone quote the post that Mr Linehan made, that attracted the 
 >>>> attention of the police? 
 >>> 
 >>> Not I, and that's for certain. It was on Twitter / X, wasn't it? 
 >>> 
 >>> Does anyone actually take any notice of it? 
 >>> 
 >>> As for the man himself, I am not much of a fan. Well, except for "The IT 
 >>> Crowd", which sounded as though it was written by an adult with a sense 
 >>> of humour, as opposed to "Father Ted" which can only have been written 
 >>> by a precocious 13 year old who thought that using swear words made any 
 >>> old tripe into something funny. 
 >>> 
 >>>> The fact that he's famous or a comedy writer isn't really relevant. 
 >>>> 
 >>> It shouldn't be. But one can hardly overlook the possibility that it 
 >>> definitely was not irrelevant in this particular case. 
 >>> 
 >>>> If he was taunting or harassing a specific trans person, he fully 
 >>>> deserves to be arrested and questioned > 
 >>> 
 >>> Does he? Is what you say he did worse than "taunting or harassing" 
 >>> anyone else? 
 >>> 
 >>>> - whether he has committed an offence is for the CPS to judge. 
 >>> 
 >>> I'm sure your typing of "CPS" was a muscle memory typo for "jury". 
 >> 
 >> If the CPS doesn't think he has committed an offence it won't ever get 
 >> to a 
 >> court. 
 > 
 > That is not their test. They authorise a charge if it is in the public 
 > interest and if they think that there is a better than 50% chance of 
 > getting a conviction. 
 > 
 > But the first part of that test is what would be more important here. 
 > 
 > In what way would it ever be in the public interest to elevate an 
 > argument into a criminal matter? 
 > 
  
 Did you know that there exists a criminal offence of harassment? 
  
 https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/40/contents 
  
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