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Gimp banned from wearing a gimp suit in public and 'crawling, wriggling or writhing on the ground' for five years (news.sky.com)

submitted 1 year ago by BobTheBoozer@lemmy.world to c/unitedkingdom

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Guess we have something to look forward to in 2028.

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[–] livus@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

I agree. The UK is usually pretty robust about name suppression. Maybe he wasn't powerful enough.

The earlier story linked makes him sound vulnerable:

Hunt also told the court on the two nights he had been seen on the side of the road he had wanted to kill himself by being hit by a car.

"It never entered my head that what I was doing was frightening people," he said.

"I apologise to those people - I agree what I was doing was frightening but hand on my heart I never intended to cause them harassment, alarm or distress."