Judge orders ‘Naked Rambler’ to get dressed

The European Court of Human Rights has rejected a final legal challenge brought by a man known as the Naked Rambler, who had claimed he had a right to be nude in public.

Former royal marine Stephen Gough argued that his repeated arrest, prosecution, conviction and imprisonment for public nudity breached his human rights.

However, court judges ruled last October that Gough’s treatment did not breach his right to a private life or freedom of expression, and yesterday they refused him permission to appeal that decision to the Strasbourg court’s highest Grand Chamber.