Wigan’s 19-year-old Adam Lockwood received a three-month criminal sentence, suspended for two years, by a ruling in the Manchester County Magistrates’ Court.
Manchester City Council had violated a court order prohibiting him from entering without authorization and posting content online.
His defense said YouTube is partly guilty of the teen’s behavior.
The court heard that the council had received a three-year court order for antisocial behaviour opposed to Lockwood, which prohibited him from climbing buildings and cranes, leaving buses, trams and trains, and entering structural sites in England and Wales.
This followed the videos he had posted about himself along buildings and cranes in Manchester.
He also banned uploading videos to social media that had been filmed while entering personal property.
City Council said Lockwood, whose Nickname on YouTube is The Little Nuisance, had violated the order three times since early June.
I was on the roof of the front of Arndale’s food court in Manchester at the Black Lives Matter event on June 7.
Nine days later, he swayed on the edge of a 600-foot (180 m) balcony at the Madison Building in Canary Wharf, London; the stunts went up to the Internet.
On July 5, he left an abusive message on the city council’s answering machine, saying they would “throw” a town hall official into the street.
As a relief, Lockwood’s lawyer said you were the search for fame and monetary praise from YouTube, saying, “It’s about the success of YouTube. YouTube pays.”
Deputy District Judge Lindsay Clarke condemned Lockwood’s “deliberate, conscious and deliberate” violation of her order, adding that acting such stunts on a pandemic was the “height of stupidity” and was motivated by “arrogance” and “greed for fame.”
Nigel Murphy, deputy director of Manchester City Council, said Lockwood’s movements were “incredibly dangerous” in general times, however, “to make this a pandemic, when emergency facilities and council staff are already pushed to the limit, it defies logic.”
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