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Karaoke nuisance jailed for drunken cream bun attacks on police officers
SLAPPING a cream bun on a policeman's head has led to a two-year jail sentence for a 61-year-old man who has become notorious for his antics in a Yorkshire town centre.
Self-styled karaoke singer and street entertainer Kenneth "Kipper" Jackson was arrested after smearing the bun onto the head of Pc Brent Porter as he made an arrest.
Jackson had claimed he was balancing the bun on his head when he was pushed from behind and it landed on the officer, Sheffield Crown Court heard yesterday.
Revellers in Barnsley town centre found the scene hilarious but Jackson was arrested for breaching an Anti-Social Behaviour Order which bans him from being drunk in public.
A jury heard that he committed a second breach of the order when he threw another cream bun at a police car two weeks later.
Jackson wore a red T-shirt in the dock bearing the slogan "Free Kipper Jackson" on the first day of his two-day trial and yesterday sported a prison shirt with the slogans "Super Legend" and "Karaoke King".
He denied breaching his Asbo by twice being drunk in Barnsley town centre.
Many Barnsley residents are familiar with Jackson, who entertains people by singing his favourite Des O'Connor songs through a karaoke machine he keeps in a child's pushchair.
Jackson, who says he was nicknamed Kipper by his mother because he was as "thin as a kipper" when he was young, even has his own website and lists his interests as "drinking and singing but mostly drinking."
Jackson's Asbo was made on August 4, 2004 and bars him from harassing people, drinking in public and being under the influence of alcohol in a public place.
Nicholas Neale, prosecuting, said Jackson had been drinking when he armed himself with the cream buns on September 6 and September 19 last year.
Mr Neale said two officers were in a police car in Barnsley town centre at 10.50pm when they saw Jackson walking unsteadily and carrying a cream bun.
He gestured to throw it at the police car which stopped as he walked into the road.
Pc Porter got out to have a word and Jackson said to him "Eh up, pudding." The officer was called to restrain another man and Jackson then slapped the cream bun on the officer's head.
On the second occasion, after 10pm in the town centre, two police officers saw Jackson shouting and using bad language with people milling around.
The officers stopped their car and Jackson threw a bun at the windscreen.
He was found guilty by the jury after a 40-minute retirement of twice breaching his Asbo which will remain in force.
Jackson has been remanded in custody since the second cream bun offence and was given a new sentence of two years by Judge Robert Moore.
The judge told him: "You slapped a cream bun on the head of a police officer struggling with a prisoner, it could have led to serious public disorder."
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