Best man in kilt loses bid to rid self of electronic leg tag for big day

A Whalley man asked magistrates to help him hide his embarrassment by allowing the removal of his electronic monitoring tag while he acted as best man at a family wedding, wearing a kilt.

But while guests at the wedding may not know what 45-year-old Graham Carter is wearing under his kilt, they will know that he is electronically monitored after the JP’s refused his request.



Carter, of Woodfield View, Whalley, was made subject to an electronically monitored curfew between 8 p.m. and 7 a.m. for 15 weeks after pleading guilty to using threatening behaviour towards a neighbour. It entails him wearing a monitor fastened around his ankle.

Magistrates had already agreed to suspend the curfew for five days while he attended the wedding, but the Chairman of the Bench said they would not instruct the monitoring company to remove and then refit the “bracelet”. “I’m sure that with the kilt you wear thick socks, but if anyone asks you will just have to explain it to them,” added the chairman.