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When that sentence concluded on 17 July 2012, he left the prison naked again, but this time the police allowed him to go on his way. Three days later, on 20 July, he was rearrested by Fife Police for a breach of the peace in Townhill.
On 13 September 2012 he was sentenced to five months in prison. He had refused to allow social workers to assess his mental health after he broke down in court during an appearance on 23 August.
Released in early October 2012, he walked from Saughton to Edale during October, continuing across the English border down the Pennine Way to Edale by October 31, with two arrests en route in Hebden Bridge and Halifax. Released on bail, he continued to walk south and is due back in Court on 5 February 2013 to face public order charges. He was arrested in Carterton, Oxfordshire on suspicion of outraging public decency on 4 December and was then refused bail and will spend Christmas 2012 in jail after his application for bail was refused.
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