Nudist loses High Court fight after walking naked past police officer (via independent.co.uk)

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**Nudist loses High Court fight after walking naked past police officer**
Neil Cox was convicted of threatening or disorderly behaviour
By Danny Halpin, 23 September 2026
The High Court has thrown out an appeal brought by a naturist who was arrested after he walked naked past an off-duty police officer.
Neil Cox was previously fined £800 after being convicted at Crewe Magistrates’ Court of threatening or disorderly behaviour.
The charge stemmed from a walk that he took along Middlewood Way, near Macclesfield, on 22 August 2023.
A subsequent appeal against that conviction was thrown out at Chester Crown Court in November 2024.
Cox then mounted a further challenge at the High Court, which was also dismissed in a judgment handed down on Wednesday.
Dame Victoria Sharp, sitting alongside Mrs Justice Hill at the High Court in Manchester, said that Cox was waiting for a shop to open at roughly 6.30am when he passed Detective Chief Inspector Mark Whittaker and then two women.
At the time, he wore only a small shoulder bag containing a copy of naturism guidance issued by the College of Policing, as well as his mobile phone…

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