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Police search for Bez after claims of restraining order violation
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 5 November 2010
There’s still a little part of me, even thirty years on, that thinks that one day, perhaps one day soon, it will all be revealed that the entire concept of Bez was an audacious, twisted, avante garde art project dreamed up by a Mancunian art student. Mark Berry, perhaps, is just the world’s greatest ever character actor.
But until that day, the plot thickens. Greater Manchester Police have confirmed they are hunting high and low for the aging Madchester space cadet after he breached a restraining order put in place after he was found guilty of assaulting his ex-girlfriend and baby-mother Monica Ward. Said ex has claimed Berry has pestered her with text messages and phonecalls since being released for prison, where he served four weeks in jail for the assault after refusing to do community service.
Berry had been staying with friends in Urmston, just outside Manchester, but has seemingly disappeared since Ward made her new claims regarding his failure to adhere to the two year ‘no-contact’ order. A spokesman for Manchester police told reporters: “He is said to have made repeated attempts to contact Monica by phone and text. Attempts are being made to track him down. We may need to get another police force involved”.
It’s no surprise Bez hasn’t been adhering to the restraining order. He was very dismissive of his original trial at Manchester Magistrates Court, and when he lost an appeal at Manchester Crown Court last month he shouted “It’s a joke. I’m going to take this to a higher court. I’m not paying nothing”. His lawyer, though, seemed less certain another appeal would follow.
