Brand in clear over BNP gag
Prosecutors to take no action
Jo Brand will not be prosecuted over her gag about the British National Party, the Crown Prosecution Service has decided.The far-right party complained to police that her joke on BBC One's Live At The Apollo last month amounted to incitement to cause racial harassment.
Joking about the BNP’s membership being leaked on the internet, 51-year-old Brand quipped: 'Hurrah. Now we know who to send the poo to.’
But the Mail on Sunday reports today that prosecutors have advised that no further action be taken.
At the time BNP deputy leader Simon Darby made his complaint, a senior police source told the Press: ‘It is an absurd case and very unlikely to get to court. A lot of police time and money appears to have been wasted investigating what for all intents and purposes is just a joke.’
Published: 1 Mar 2009
