Police drop probe into ‘homophobic’ Fury comments

Andy Lee says Tyson Fury needs to be smarter about how he speaks to the media as the world heavyweight champion comes under fire – and an investigation – for controversial remarks he has made.

But in a further twist to the ongoing saga Bellew on Thursday strongly defended Fury – during an interview in which the cruiserweight also called for the public execution of paedophiles. He confirmed his suspension from work at BBC Northern Ireland on his Facebook page on Thursday.

“I have been in discussions with the BBC regarding my involvement with SPOTY after hearing what I believe to be very outdated and derogatory comments from a fellow SPOTY nominee”, he said in a statement to the BBC.

“If Fury had made racist comments I am certain that the BBC would have never shortlisted him”.

“My employer is hurting me and other gay people by celebrating someone who considers me no better than a paedophile and who believes homosexual people are helping to bring about the end of the world”.

“It’s tempting to see him for the laughable idiot he is but sadly there are many other idiots who will be inspired and encouraged by his naive, juvenile bigotry”.

The BBC would not comment on the West situation.

“The circumstances in which these comments were made suggest that no criminal offence has taken place and this matter will not be investigated any further”, the spokesman said.

Fury has since hit the headlines for the wrong reasons after he was quoted by The Daily Mail expressing the view that homosexuality and abortion are two of three “evils” alongside paedophilia.

Mr Fury tweeted: “Just to set the record straight I don’t hate homosexuals!”

“Throughout the next 2 days the SPOTY team asked me to stay on”.

He has not ignored the controversy about his candidacy, however, which included comments about heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis-Hill, who he said “slaps up good” and “looks quite fit” in a dress, and that a women’s place is in the kitchen.

It has provoked a storm of criticism and after meeting on Wednesday to discuss the matter, the BBBC has summoned Fury to appear before it in the new year.

The 27-year-old Fury has remained defiant amid the backlash, claiming he has been misunderstood. I think he should be a bit smarter and be careful of who he invites into his world. “I haven’t any enemies, I don’t hate any race, color, creed, generation, nobody”.

According to the SJA, the decision came in wake of the threats made by Fury against a sports journalist after the latter had reported about boxer’s comments on homosexuality and women, Sport24 reported.

Rutherford said he planned to pull out of the event in Belfast on December 20, but the long jump champion is now attending “to make my family proud and to thank them for the support in my career”.