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Bez arrested and fined over restraining order breach
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 25 November 2010
Bez has finally been arrested, nearly three weeks after Greater Manchester Police announced they were hunting for the Happy Mondays dancer. He was apprehended by British Transport Police on Tuesday at London Euston railway station and was fined £140 yesterday after he admitted to breaching a restraining order prohibiting him from contacting his former partner earlier this month.
As previously reported, Bez – real name Mark Berry – was jailed for a month earlier this year after a Manchester court found him guilty of assaulting his former girlfriend and mother of his two year old son, Monica Ward. The prison sentence only came when Berry announced to the magistrate that he wouldn’t do the community service he had been given, saying: “I’m not doing it. Bothered? I’m going to appeal and take this to a real court”.
Once out of prison, he launched that appeal, but the original ruling was upheld and he was ordered to pay an additional £500 in court costs. Clearly unable to stop his stupid mouth from flapping about, he announced again that he would not comply, but this time got away with a warning to shut the fuck up from the judge.
But the story just refuses to die, because less than two weeks later Bez was on the run from the law, having bombarded Ward with phonecalls and texts, something frowned upon due to a restraining order blocking him from contacting her at all.
As far as I know, Bez paid his fine yesterday and went home quietly. I’d like to say this is the last we’ll hear of this story, but past form suggests not.
