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Lancelot Threatened With Life in Prison After 177 Convictions for Swearing

“I’d get less for burglary!"

December 5, 2014

"Fuck off," George Lancelot told the judge after being sentenced to 20 months in prison for his conviction for swearing and public drunkenness.

"Unless you deal with this, you could spend the rest of your life in prison," Judge Phillip Wassall of the Exeter Crown Court in the United Kingdom told Lancelot during the hearing.

The conviction is based on "anti-social behaviour order (ASBO) banning him from swearing and drinking in public," the BBC reported. His latest infraction came when he began swearing while being released from jail for his last offense, according to The Express.

"Mr. Scott Horner, prosecuting, said the ASBO, which has been in force for ten years, forbids him to use offensive or obscene words or gestures such are likely to cause harassment alarm or distress," The Mirror said. "He is also banned from having alcohol in public."

"He (Lancelot) cannot comply with the ASBO because he is mentally ill," Lancelot's defense attorney Kevin Hopper told the BBC. "He faces a life term but I don't know what to suggest."

"I have to treat you as someone whose behaviour completely disregards the ASBO," Judge Wassall said. "In 1999, you were diagnosed with a personality disorder and I am told there is unlikely to be any psychiatric disposition which to help you."

"The only thing the court can do is treat you as somebody who habitually breaks the order. On this occasion you were threatening to stab people, swearing and being aggressive to the public within hours of being released."

"I’d get less for burglary," the 62 year old Lancelot said before being taken out of the courtroom.

Published under: Crime Blotter