They realise I do it for fun and for charity. “ My kids, like most people, think it’s a great laugh. “ I’ve told the Aintree officials and the police over and over again that I won’t be there this year.Īnd I certainly won’t be jumping over Becher’s Brook you should only do that if you’re a Speaking today, Mark Roberts said he had heard that the Aintree authorities were scared that he If he were to impose the ASBO, Mr Roberts would be prevented from attending any sporting event. Whether streaking fell into the Home Office definition of antisocial behaviour. In most cases he provided pleasure and hilarity '.for most, the atmosphereĭistrict Judge Nick Sanders, adjourning the hearing, refused to allow the ban because it was uncertain Provided a sideshow at the Grand Nationals of 19, not to mention more thanģ80 sporting events over the last decade.ĭuring the day’s hearing, Lawrence Lee, for Mr Roberts, told the court that most people who saw the

It was the day the Home Office was refused by a judge to place an interim ASBO on Mark, immediately before the Aintree Grand National day.ĭespite the Home Office's failure at a court hearing on 13th April 2007 to get him banned fromĪnd other sporting events, Wirral magistrates shelved until May 11 a decision on whether to grantĪn interim ASBO against our Mark Roberts, who, naked but for a cowboy hat and false moustache, In a paradoxical twist of fate, Friday the 13th was a day of nice things happening for our Mark. Mark thanks all his messages of support duringįor more information, please click on the links at the bottom of this page.

The day I get booed by the public is the day I stop.' My motivation has only ever been to entertain people. He said: 'Humour and justice has prevailed over political correctness. But this is good, old fashioned British fun.'ĭismissing the application at Wirral magistrates' court, Judge Sanders said: 'What Mr Roberts does may be annoying but, in my opinion, it does not amount to anti-social behaviour.'Īfterwards Mr Roberts, who is unmarried and unemployed, described the decision as a victory for the British sense of humour. 'He accepts that some people might be offended. He said: 'My client has turned over a new fig leaf.' Laurence Lee, defending, said apart from last September's Ryder Cup in Ireland, Mr Roberts had not offended for 12 months. Jim Clarke, for the police, said: 'It is not the aim of the police to land Mr Roberts in jail, it is to prevent public and sporting events from being disrupted.' Merseyside Police applied for the Asbo against the 42-year-old after he struck at the Open Golf Championship in Hoylake, Wirral, last year.īut his behaviour was not judged distressing enough to warrant an Asbo.ĭistrict Judge Nick Sanders was told that as Tiger Woods was due to tee off at the Open Golf Championship last year Mr Roberts ran around the green with just a toy squirrel covering his genitals and a golf ball between his buttocks. Mark has avoided an Anti-social behaviour order (Asbo) which would have banned him from exposing himself at public events.

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