Gimp banned from wearing a gimp suit in public and 'crawling, wriggling or writhing on the ground' for five years

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• Wimopy@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Man who publicly restricts his freedom has his freedom publicly restricted.

  On a more serious note though: why is sharing his name and face necessary or even allowed? Seems like it’ll result in consequences greater than what the court has deemed appropriate to dole out.

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  • livus@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    @Wimopy I agree. The UK are usually pretty robust about name supression but I guess he wasn't powerful enough?

    The earlier case linked makes him sound pretty 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."

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  • livus@kbin.social ⁨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."

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  • tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Man who publicly restricts his freedom has his freedom publicly restricted.

    Masochist tased, bondage enthusiast shackled.

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  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Jurisprudence Fetishist Gets Off On Technicality

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  • lemonflavoured@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    why is sharing his name and face necessary or even allowed?

    Open justice?

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    • oldGregg@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Humiliation fetishist publicly shamed

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• GCostanzaStepOnMe@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Do you have a loicence for that wriggling and writhing?

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  • livus@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think it's probably more the part where he jumps out in front of their cars on a lonely road at night that got him in trouble.

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    • tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Now you know how we feel about deer in much of the US. Like ambulatory, suicidal road barriers.

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• christophski@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I wonder what leads you to the place in your life where this is what you want to do

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  • Blackout@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is only fair if they find the most dullest person in England and make him/her take over for the next 5 years. I do have a suggestion

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  • WhiteHawk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Most mentally stable brit

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• tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Among the restrictions, Hunt, of Claverham, North Somerset is banned from wearing “black all-in-one garments” or “any combination… which has the appearance of an all-in-one garment” in public between 9pm and 6am.

  It was an end to the nocturnal activities of the black-clad Somerset Gimp, but a beginning to the crepuscular expeditions of the dark-gray-wearing Somerset Rainy Afternoon Gimp.

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  • EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So crop-top gimp suit are still a-ok?

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• Blackout@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That Victorian era really fucked you guys up

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• Neato@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Two women were afraid and said they felt he might abduct them so they put him on the sex offender list for 5 years...

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  • kux@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    He's been at it for five years - the Essex Gimp last year was complaing about the bad reputation the Somerset Gimp was bringing to the gimp community

    https://www.essexlive.news/news/local-news/gimp-man-essex-says-somerset-7838611

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    • tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The problem here is clearly the disturbingly low barrier to entry to gimphood, and its single, shared status. The reputation of a hypothetical Honorable Brotherhood of Essex Gimps wouldn’t be besmirched by the appalling behavior of some Somerset rogue.

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• DandomRude@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Then he’ll probably have to use GIMP now. Well, that’s also a nice hobby.

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  • thehatfox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Restrictions have also been placed on his computer use and access to the internet.

    Guess he will have to stick to Photoshop 🤨

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• tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Restrictions have also been placed on his computer use and access to the internet.

  Imposing the order, District Judge Joanna Dickens said: "A sexual risk order is quite a serious order, and it has a lot of obligations of you and if you breach this order you can go to prison.

  When asked about the need for restrictions on Internet access, Judge Joanna Dickens clarified that “he definitely had the look of someone who was likely to main Voldo”.

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• z500@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  SUSPECT IS WRIGGLING THREATENING, REQUESTING BACKUP

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• Deceptichum@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If he resists and they tase him is he breaking a law?

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• lemonflavoured@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Bring on the gimp!

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• autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  A district judge imposed the restrictions, following a hearing at Bristol Magistrates’ Court, just a week after Hunt was convicted of two offences under the Public Order Act of intentionally causing harassment, alarm or distress.

  Last week’s hearing heard how a man in an all-black gimp suit had terrified two female motorists in May this year in Bleadon, near Weston-super-Mare.

  It was the latest in a series of incidents where a man in skin-tight dark clothing was seen writhing on the ground and stepping out in front of cars in remote locations across Somerset since 2018.

  The court previously heard that witnesses to an incident in October last year said they saw a man wearing a gimp suit who grabbed his penis over the top of his clothing and also “gyrated against the floor”.

  Lawrence Wilcox, representing Avon and Somerset Police, told the hearing that Hunt had been linked to 25 incidents in total.

  Read more from Sky News:Child killed after being hit by car during school runThieves cut through museum floor in ‘audacious’ heistZara Aleena’s murderer wins appeal for shorter sentence

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