(302) HAPPY NEW YEAR TO THE NAKED RAMBLER FROM DINGWALL SHERIFF COURT
After a trial at Dingwall Sheriff Court on 7 January 2004, Steve Gough, the Naked Rambler, was jailed for three months backdated to 1 December 2003 after being convicted of breach of the peace in Evanton on 29 November. Giving evidence, the Evanton resident who had reported Gough to the police said of the latter’s behaviour: I think there is a time and a place for it. I did not think Evanton was the place for it, or any other village. Gough was reported as saying that when he was in Evanton people on a bus waved at him, workers on a building site cheered and he had numerous requests for people to have their pictures taken with him. He argued that there was no law requiring him to wear clothes. Sentencing Gough, Sheriff Edward Savage said: You seem determined