{"id":27062,"date":"2018-08-02T11:59:08","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T10:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=27062"},"modified":"2018-08-02T11:59:08","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T10:59:08","slug":"citizen-khan-and-ackley-bridge-star-adil-ray-contacts-police-after-abuse-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/02\/citizen-khan-and-ackley-bridge-star-adil-ray-contacts-police-after-abuse-on-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizen Khan and Ackley Bridge star Adil Ray contacts police after abuse on social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Citizen Khan star<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/adil-ray\">Adil Ray<\/a><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>communicated with the police after a protruding Birmingham food blogger said: &#8220;Let&#8217;s hang, draw and quarter him outside the Bullring.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: auto; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 17.25pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/citizen_khan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-27063 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/citizen_khan-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/citizen_khan-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/citizen_khan-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/citizen_khan-696x348.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/citizen_khan-840x420.jpg 840w, https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/citizen_khan.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: auto; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 17.25pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; color: #000000;\">The actor and broadcaster, from Yardley Wood, rejected suggestions the comment, posted on the @MeatOneVegBlog Twitter account, was a &#8220;light-hearted gag&#8221; and said it was &#8220;just nasty&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Ray, currently starring in Channel 4&#8217;s Ackley Bridge drama, tweeted<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>West Midlands Police<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>, a second force account and Twitter officials to ask: &#8220;Can we report this?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: auto; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 17.25pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; color: #000000;\">He was responding to a tweet from @MeatOneVegBlog which said: &#8220;I&#8217;m hugely against the death penalty until I remember that the man who writes Citizen Khan gets paid via my TV licence direct debit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0cm 0cm 17.25pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; color: #000000;\">&#8220;Bring it back. Let&#8217;s hang, draw and quarter him outside the Bullring.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: auto; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 17.25pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; color: #000000;\">An apology was displayed on the @MeatOneVegBlog account saying: &#8220;Apologies if anyone found my earlier tweet offensive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: auto; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 17.25pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; color: #000000;\">&#8220;It was a joke and meant completely in jest.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: auto; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 17.25pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; color: #000000;\">&#8220;I realised that it was in poor taste and removed it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: auto; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 17.25pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; color: #000000;\">&#8220;I apologise for that tweet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0cm 0cm 17.25pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; color: #000000;\">&#8220;If anyone is offended, or felt in any way genuinely threatened by that joke, then I apologise for that too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: auto; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 17.25pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; color: #000000;\">&#8220;To be clear, I do not want people to hang, draw and quarter anyone outside of the Bullring.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: auto; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 17.25pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; color: #000000;\">After the tweet was deleted, Ray messaged Twitter and police to ask: &#8220;Can we report this?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: auto; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 17.25pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; color: #000000;\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t fancy being hung in my city.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"converse-re cre-center\" style=\"outline: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: auto; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; background-color: transparent; color: #141414; float: left; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/get.convrse.media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.birminghammail.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fmidlands-news%2Fcitizen-khan-ackley-bridge-star-14980552&amp;cre=center&amp;cip=19\" width=\"100%\" height=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: auto; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 17.25pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; color: #000000;\">&#8220;Oh and this isn&#8217;t a light-hearted gag, it&#8217;s just nasty.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: auto; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 17.25pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; color: #000000;\">In a second tweet, he said: &#8220;Here&#8217;s a photo as now deleted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0cm 0cm 17.25pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; color: #000000;\">&#8220;Please let me know what action I can take please.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: auto; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 17.25pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; color: #000000;\">West Midlands Police responded to Ray via a direct message on Twitter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: auto; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Last month, Ray, 44, revealed plans for a<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/showbiz-tv\/adil-ray-reveals-plans-citizen-14715783\">film spin-off of his BBC sitcom<\/a><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>, which is set in Birmingham.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: auto; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0cm 0cm 17.25pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; 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\u00a0 The actor and broadcaster, from Yardley Wood, rejected suggestions the comment, posted on the @MeatOneVegBlog Twitter account, was a &#8220;light-hearted gag&#8221; and said it was &#8220;just nasty&#8221;. 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