Magistrates hear case in cells because accused was too smelly

A defendant who was ruled too smelly and lice ridden for the courtroom had his hearing in a cell.

Serial boozer Steven Brooker, 32, was "infested" - so three JPs decided he could not take the dock.

Instead the South East Surrey magistrates traipsed down to where the jobless pest was being held to slap a five-year Asbo on him.


Photo from here.

A court source said: "He truly stank to high heaven. As for his lice, we'd have had to treat all the carpets."

Brooker, of Epsom, Surrey, had been arrested six times in two weeks for being drunk and disorderly.

The Asbo bans him from Epsom and Ewell and says he must not be drunk or abusive or threaten, assault, harass or intimidate anyone in Surrey.