Police Pay Money to Graham Linehan After Wrong Arrest
警方因錯誤逮捕賠償 Graham Linehan
Introduction
The London police said sorry to Graham Linehan. They paid him £25,000 because they arrested him for things he wrote online.
倫敦警方向 Graham Linehan 致歉。由於警方因其在網上發表的言論而將其逮捕，因此向他賠償了 25,000 英鎊。
Main Body
In September 2025, five police officers with guns stopped Mr. Linehan at the airport. He wrote three posts on the website X. The police thought these posts were hate speech. Mr. Linehan went to the hospital because his blood pressure was high. Then, the police told him he cannot use X.
2025 年 9 月，五名持槍警察在機場攔截了 Linehan 先生。他在 X 網站上發布了三篇貼文，警方認為這些貼文屬於仇恨言論。Linehan 先生因血壓過高而被送往醫院。隨後，警方告知他不能再使用 X。
Later, the police said they made mistakes. They said his posts were not crimes. In October 2025, the police stopped the investigation. Now, the police will not investigate people for 'non-crime' hate incidents. They want to spend time on real crimes.
隨後，警方表示他們犯了錯，稱其貼文並不構成犯罪。2025 年 10 月，警方停止了調查。現在，警方將不再調查「非犯罪」的仇恨事件，他們希望將時間花在真正的犯罪案件上。
Some people were angry. A group called the Free Speech Union said the arrest was wrong. A politician, Kemi Badenoch, said the police did too much. Mr. Linehan also had other problems with the law about a broken phone.
有些人對此感到憤怒。一個名為 Free Speech Union 的團體表示這次逮捕是錯誤的。政治人物 Kemi Badenoch 則認為警方的做法過激。Linehan 先生之前還因手機損壞而涉及其他法律問題。
Conclusion
The police paid the money and changed their rules about hate speech.
警方支付了賠償金，並更改了關於仇恨言論的規定。
Vocabulary Learning
The Magic of "Past Action" Words
Look at how the story describes things that already happened. To move from A1 to A2, you need to see how we change a word to show the past.
The Pattern:
- Pay Paid (The police paid him money)
- Say Said (They said sorry)
- Stop Stopped (Officers stopped Mr. Linehan)
- Write Wrote (He wrote three posts)
Quick Tip: Most words just get an -ed at the end (like stop stopped). But some words are "rebels" and change completely (like write wrote).
Example from text: "The police said they made mistakes."
Both said and made tell us this is an old story, not something happening right now.