Wednesday, 24 August 2011

Naked As A Jaybird

There is a man in the UK who has been behaving in an ever more bizarre manner, but whom the courts and society seem unable to control. 

Stephen Gough aka The Naked Rambler
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He is known by the press as "The Naked Rambler" (ex soldier, Stephen Gough), and as his moniker suggests, he parades around like 'the emperor in his new suit' i.e Stark Naked!
 
If truth be known I had forgotten about him, but that's because it turns out that he has been locked up in prison after a series of clashes with the courts of Scotland, where he refuses to wear clothes, even when in court ..... they put brown paper down on all the seats for 'hygiene purposes' .... he has just finished a sentence, been re-arrested  and after refusing to robe himself was sentenced to a further 657 days in prison.

I dread to think what walking around naked in a prison does for you ......
 
As usual, the "Human Rights Act" is waved around by all and sundry, although I am sure that even the New Labour gurus who promoted this ridiculous act, didn't intend it to include public decency being destroyed ... still you never know.

Gough has said that "What I am doing is based on my belief about what I am and what I am is not indecent. Ordinary people have prejudices and intolerance's" .... most people think he is a bit of a nutter, and in earlier, less enlightened times he would have been locked away in a secure place either for treatment or his own protection, instead, in these more civilised times, he is ... err, locked away in prison as a punishment .... "C'est la vie"

Update: He was released from his latest stay in a Scottish Prison today, but for how long is anyone's guess .... "I am not going to give up. Stay naked is the word" .... was his latest comment. He lost his Human Rights Challenge.
 
In April 2016, Gough asserted that he had cut back on his public nudity, because he was responsible for caring for his then 89-year-old mother.
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2 comments:

  1. Anonymous27 September 2013 at 14:07

    He continues to defy the courts and the world. On 19 June 2013 Mr Gough was imprisoned for 11 months for breaching an antisocial behaviour order (ASBO). He may not be dealing from a full deck of cards if you get my drift. He refuses to have has mental statre assessed.

    In all he has spent well over seven years in prison or police custody and this will soon pass 8 years.

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    1. No PC27 September 2013 at 19:43

      Thanks for the update .... he's a persistent little 'so and so'

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