Naked man seen by Christmas shoppers on top floor of Cork car park

Hassan Baker of MacCurtain Villas, College Road, Cork, pleaded guilty to a charge of engaging in threatening, abusive or insulting behaviour arising out of the incident.

 A two-month suspended jail term was imposed on a 30-year-old naked man who was encountered by Christmas shoppers on the top floor of a city centre multi-storey car park.

Defence solicitor Eddie Burke submitted at Cork District Court that as an offence under Section 6 of the Criminal Justice (Public Order) Act, the one committed by Hassan Baker was an unusual one. The section refers to being threatening, abusive or insulting. Mr Burke said that invariably such cases related to threatening or abusive behaviour but that in this case it consisted of behaviour which insulted shoppers who saw him that afternoon.