(733) CLOTHING OPTIONAL: SIX MORE STEPS TO KEY WEST?
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Steve Gough, the Naked Rambler, made another fleeting public appearance without clothes on 18 January 2008, having been momentarily liberated by Sheriff Kenneth Maciver to consider the resumption of apparel prior to being sentenced again on 16 April. According to suspiciously precise and consistent media reports, Gough had taken barely six steps from the Cowgate doors of Edinburgh Sheriff Court before he was re-arrested by uniformed police (woolly suits, in Rebus jargon), and returned to squalor carceris once more. Mr Gough was reported to have said as he was arrested: You have taken me by surprise. Where is the freedom?” At the time the Editor of Scots Law News was engaged on a major research project in Key West