"I had to speed up to get past them and he jumped to the side of my car. She said in her statement: “When I saw them my sister-in-law screamed. Just 24 hours later – shortly after midnight on May 9 – Samantha Brown was driving from work with her sister-in-law and another colleague when she saw a man dressed all in black with a face mask. He said: “I can see they were all in black and shiny and the car lights were reflecting off him." Martin Mills, a passenger in a vehicle driving in the area at the same time as Miss Lodge, saw a man “commando crawling” on the floor. I didn’t sleep more than three hours that night.” I feel scared and I never want to see this thing again due to the fright it gave me. “I had never seen anything like this before. When I got home I was breathing heavily and I was having a borderline panic attack. I genuinely believed it was an abduction because you read about this in the newspapers. She added: “The whole incident felt so surreal, and I was questioning myself about what I was seeing and making this statement makes me feel anxious. They were face down in a military fashion and writhing and crawling on their belly.” “He was dressed all in black with a shiny, black facemask with white crosses on. It was terrifying although I had only seen them for a few seconds. ![]() “My first thought was it could be a possible abduction and the person was trying to get me out of my car. The mask was dark and very tight and two white crosses where the eyes should be. “I could see the person was wearing very tight, dark clothing and had a mask on their face. The 'Gimp Man' has been spotted on a number of previous occasions in Somerset (Image: BPM MEDIA) She said: “He was writhing and crawling as if in a military fashion. The court was told in a written statement how motorist Lucy Lodge was driving home along Accommodation Road in Bleadon when she saw something moving on the ground. However he was on Friday convicted of the offences following a one-day trial. He denied two offences of causing intentional harassment, alarm or distress. He had also drawn eyes and a mouth on the mask in UV paint. The court was told how Hunt was seen wearing the black outfit and terrifying mask made out of tights bought from Asda on the same day. ![]() When Hunt was arrested minutes after the second incident, he told police: “I am not a gimp – I do not own a gimp suit. ![]() Joshua Hunt, 32, was seen by one lone female driver to be writhing around on the ground while another was left shaking and crying by the alleged incident.īristol Magistrates’ Court heard the incidents took place in the evening of May 7 and shortly after midnight on May 9 this year in Bleadon, near Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. Female motorists driving home late at night were left terrified after seeing a man dressed in a black gimp suit, a court heard.
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