Gough, 53, who is a bit of a celebrity in the UK because of his dislike of clothing, was allowed to leave prison and walk home this week – in the buff.
It’s not the first time he’s done porridge for being in the buff. The first time, when he was let out of Perth Prison, he was promptly rearrested right outside the jail – for being naked.
But this time police seem to have thrown in the towel.
“My opinion is that the police have thought, ‘The guy’s not going to give up so let’s have a think about it,’” Gough told the BBC. “What they were doing before was pre-empting complaints and now they are not.”
Gough got his nickname when he was first locked up in 2003 for walking off his job as a truck driver, without clothing.
The Telegraph quoted him as saying he was delighted to be out in the fresh air again. “I haven’t been outside a building in six years and it is nice to smell the flowers and see the greenery.
“I was kept in solitary all the time. I wasn’t given association with other prisoners. I got half an hour in the evening to have a shower and walk up and down the hall when they had been locked away.” The six years locked away has done nothing to change his stance on public nudity.
“To conform with everyone else is the easiest way but when you conform, you compromise your principles,” Gough told The Sun. “Stay naked is the word.”