Kellett received the interim Anti-Social Behaviour Order (ASBO)
at Leeds Magistrates' Court, which will conduct a full ASBO hearing
in July. The Order bans him from posting any image or description
of unlawful activity on the internet.
Kellett posted over 80 shaky, unedited film clips on YouTube
depicting his activities, including a visit to the petrol station
apparently without payment, underpaying a taxi driver, high-speed
driving and car racing.
Other videos show fireworks being let off in a wheelie bin and
in a microwave oven in the road.
Leeds Councillor Les Carter said that Kellet's videos had made
it easy to identify him as a participant in anti-social
behaviour.
“Kellett must be in the running to be Leeds’s dumbest criminal.
He has handed us the evidence against him on a plate," said Carter.
"If more criminals were as obliging, the city would be even
safer.”
Kellet objected to the imposition of the interim order, telling
the court that he was just a bystander filming activities that
would have taken place anyway. He also said that the Order could
breach his right to free expression.
The ASBO not only bans him from posting information about his
exploits, but also from specific anti-social behaviour, such as
participating in dangerous driving.
In the videos, some of which were shown in court, Kellet
recognises that his videos are like diaries, documenting whatever
happens to him. "Some people say a few of my videos are pretty
boring, there's not much ever happens," he says in one. "I just
film what I see, shit that goes down on Swarcliffe estate."
He also concedes that his behaviour is less than admirable. "How
fucking irresponsible is this?" he asks while the car he is in is
involved in a chase with another on a public road. "That was really
immature," he says after he and his friends have abused a landowner
who objects to their riding a motorbike on his land.
Leeds Council said that Kellet had previously been convicted of
a number of offences at Leeds Magistrates Court. Kellet himself
tells in one video of a spell in prison as he is burning the love
letters he wrote every day to his girlfriend.
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