Adam Ant pleads guilty

Adam Ant, real name Stuart Goddard, has pleaded guilty to affray, admitting he threatening pub customers who made fun of his ‘cowboy’ clothes. Today’s court hearing followed an incident back in January when the former pop star pulled out the gun in a Kentish Town pub, threatening to shoot customers if they didn't back up. Three further charges of criminal damage, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and possession of an imitation firearm were denied by Goddard and dropped by the prosecution. Pub customers apparently started humming the theme from the spaghetti western ‘The Good, The Bad and The Ugly’, when Goddard walked in wearing a combat jacket and matching flat cap. After hearing the jokes, he left and returned armed with a starting pistol, the court had heard. Goddard's defence lawyer insisted that at the time of the attack his client "was suffering from a disease of the mind," and the judge said a new psychiatric report would be taken into consideration on deciding a sentence. After arrest Ant he was initially sectioned under the Mental Health Act in a North London hospital.