From the Guardian (in 2014): Anthony Stallard, 24, paid a fine of 35 pounds and an additional 40 pounds in charges and costs after a judge found him guilty of rowdiness and abusive behavior after he pretended to be a ghost and carried on in a Portsmouth (England) cemetery. Witnesses told police he threw "his arms in the air and [said] wooooo". His lawyer told the court "I'm assuming he was pretending to be a ghost." Probably.
Mr. Stallard and his friends were also apparently playing football among the graves, and Mr. Stallard was singing, which upset some mourners who were there at the time. Said his attorney, Denise Saunders, "He has accepted that his behaviour, if it had been outside of a cemetery, would not have been inappropriate. But inside a cemetery, while people are grieving for their loved ones, it might be."
Because he had already been in trouble with the law, the court added on some time to a previous suspended sentence (more about his previous appearances in court in the Daily Mail article).
More here from the Daily Echo and the Daily Mail.
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