Thursday, November 06, 2014

Britain's most relentless nudist keeps getting locked up...

The Naked Rambler has never hurt anyone, but he'll be in prison for longer than Oscar Pistorius. In fact, Stephen Gough has already served twice Pistorius' sentence, not for the crime of culpable homicide, but for neglecting to cover his dick up while wandering around in public. The 54-year-old has boomeranged in and out of jail since 2003, when he served four months for breach of the peace. Each time he's locked up for being naked, Stephen insists on leaving the prison naked. Which, on one occasion, saw him arrested and sent back inside almost immediately.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) decided on Tuesday that, in being continually convicted (he's spent about seven years in jail overall), Stephen has had neither his freedom of expression violated, nor his right to private and family life. They were, in other words, sentencing a nudist to theoretical life imprisonment. In non-theoretical real life, he's currently one month into two-and-a-half years for disobeying an ASBO that forbade him from - no surprises here - walking around naked.

 In a Guardian interview from 2012, Stephen reveals himself to be rational and polite, capable of eloquently justifying his actions. I spoke to Neil Forsyth, who wrote the profile. "I can't see him backing down," he said, before explaining his frustration about the "conservative interpretation" of the offence - breach of the peace - that Stephen keeps getting locked up for. "There has to be a more humanistic approach," he sighed. "Who's the victim?" Full story...

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