Lennon Loses His Instruments

The Coronavirus R-Number, the reinfection rate for Covid-19, is, we are told, heading back up in North-West England. It may even have gone back above the all-important 1.0 level. This might not have been helped by one individual, along with his pals, who broke the lockdown rules and travelled more than 200 miles away from his home turf recently to stick his bugle into a campaign which did not require his assistance.

To no surprise at all, this was the latest publicity-seeking campaign of one Stephen Yaxley Lennon, still trying to remain relevant at a time when many of those who have rallied to his standard in the past have more pressing concerns. As ever, and demonstrating that no man is of perfect courage, Lennon did not travel alone. He was also accompanied in his car by a variety of electronic equipment - phones, camera, that sort of thing.

Then he got himself arrested, a skill which he has, over the years, honed to perfection. Cumbria Police - he was apprehended in the Barrow-in-Furness area after another of those alleged violent assaults for which he has become, as the late Russell Harty might have said, “famous, nay, notorious” - remanded him in custody overnight. But now he’s back home, somewhere in the home counties. So what’s his explanation?

“OK, I’ve just walked in my door. Cumbria Police tried to [remand] me, they got an extension on 24 hours, but the CPS refused to charge [yet?], I’m on bail for multiple offences with ridiculous bail conditions [meaning restrictions on him travelling]. I’ll give you all a full update when I put a video together. Thank you to Saffer, Golding, Mike & Mark for arranging my transport home”. He had to have transport home arranged.

So you know what comes next. “Police have seized my car, phone, cameras etc”. Wha-hey! At last, the action that so many of Lennon’s targets over the years had wished might one day happen … has happened. And just to put the icing on the cake, “they added perverting the course of justice to my charges”. Looks like the cops took a dim view.

The Police only need to achieve one thing: to get into Lennon’s phone(s). If they can manage that, the amount of contact detail could be huge. It may include where he got all that information on where his targets lived, as well as letting the law know if the rumours about his relationship with Charlie are correct, and if so, leading those cops straight to whoever does the supplying. And then there is his camera.

Still and video images will tell the Police who he’s been filming, where and when. And any paper records may also be suitably incriminating. Those of us who have had visits from The Great Man can, if the cops get into his electronics, expect them to be in touch soon.

Yet Lennon is already excusing his trip to the North-West, claiming that someone spat at him: “there is nothing worse than spitting in someone’s face. least of all in the middle of a world wide pandemic of a virus, a totally deplorable act”. Yeah, right.

Driving 200 miles away from your own manor just on the off-chance of scoring some self-publicity, though, is fine for him. Self-awareness never was Lennon’s strong suit.

All this and the lawsuits racking up too. Stephen Lennon truly lives in interesting times.

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