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Gay News: A street preacher arrested by police for saying that gays would go to hell has received compensation for wrongful arrest
West Miidlands Police ordered to pay
Anti-gay preacher gets £4,000 compensation
10 December 2010
Preacher Anthony Rollins was arrested by police in
He also quoted from 1 Corinthians which condemns the “effeminate” – which he said meant gay people – and also from the Book of Revelation which says that “the abominable shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone”.
After a member of the public complained to the police, Rollins, who has Asperger’s Syndrome, was arrested, handcuffed and held in a cell for over three hours.
Speaking at Birmingham County Court, Judge Lance Ashworth ruled that Rollins had been wrongfully arrested and unlawfully detained and ordered the
Rollins said: “The judgment is excellent news. But I didn’t do this for the compensation. I did it for freedom of speech.”
