PC Declan Coppock, and his colleague PC Pickles, were the first officers to arrive - and spotted a white Citroen Berlingo van reversing out of lay-by. Within five minutes, the police were contacted and sent a unit to the scene. Joshua Hunt arrives at Bristol Magistrates Court “I always take this route to work, but I won’t be taking this route in the dark anymore as it does not feel safe”, she said in a witness statement. The teenage boy described the woman’s reaction as “like a scream from a horror movie”. The driver sped up to pass, and the figure jumped to the side of the road. As she drove around a corner, she came face-to-face with a person dressed in all black with a face covering.Īs her sister-in-law looked up from her phone, she screamed in horror. Just over 24 hours later, a woman was driving along the road with her sister-in-law and teenage boy in the car. The woman was left “unnerved” and “does not want to travel around the lanes anymore”, Bristol Magistrates’ Court heard today (October 27). They chose not to call the police, but instead report it online. In disbelief, the pair discussed what they had seen and convinced each other than it was likely to be a bin bag. Torquay teenager accused of stabbing dad to death denies murderīut after a one-day trial, he was found guilty and sentenced by a district judge who said she did not believe his excuses on how he was caught wearing the outfit.ĭuring the first incident, a woman was driving along the lane with her husband and two children in the car when she spotted a black figure – which looked like a person – crawling on the ground. He accepted he was the 'gimp' who was spotted but denied any intent to cause alarm or distress. The incidents in Accommodation Road, Bleadon, near Weston-super-Mare, Somerset late on May 7 and in the early hours of May 9 last year left on-lookers terrified, the trial was told. He also had eyes and a mouth he had drawn on with UV paint, the court was told. Joshua Hunt, 32, who wore a latex black ‘gimp suit’ and terrified female motorists, was found guilty of causing intentional harassment, alarm or distress.īristol Magistrates' Court heard on two separate occasions he was seen wearing the black outfit and a terrifying mask made out of tights he’d purchased from Asda on the same day. A man exposed as the 'Somerset Gimp' has been found guilty of two public order offences - after he terrorised people in a pitch-black rural country lane.
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