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27.10.2023 - 15:43 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A man has been convicted by a judge after 'terrifying' female motorists who saw him 'writhing and crawling' along the roadside wearing a gimp suit and mask.
Self-employed gardener Joshua Hunt, 32, has been found guilty of intentionally causing harassment, alarm or distress to two female motorists. A court heard how his victims were left terrified – with one fearing they might be abducted – after seeing Hunt in his black skin-tight outfit.
The incidents took place on the evening of May 7 and shortly after midnight on May 9 this year in Bleadon, near Weston-super-Mare in Somerset, Bristol Magistrates’ Court heard. When Hunt was arrested minutes after the second incident, he told police: “I am not a gimp – I do not own a gimp suit. I am not in a gimp suit.”
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Following a trial, Hunt was found guilty by a district judge of two offences under the Public Order Act and fined £100. He was also ordered to pay £200 compensation to each of his three victims and £620 in prosecution costs.
District Judge Joanna Dickens said she accepted Hunt had already spent a month on remand in prison prior to his trial and that was bigger punishment than any sentence she could impose. “I accept that you have already received punishment and spent time in prison and lost your good character in a very public way and no doubt affecting you for the remainder of your life,” she said.
In a written statement, motorist Lucy Lodge said she was driving home along Accommodation Road in Bleadon when she saw something moving on the ground. She said: “He was writhing and crawling as if in a
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