Man Halts Motorway with Spiked Wood

0:00It's April 2nd. This is Lester News today, local news powered by AI. A 48-year-old man named Braden Napp halted the M1 motorway for over two hours by climbing a gantry armed with a spiked piece of wood near Lester Forest East. On March 28th, Napp picked up the wood from a nearby field, slipped onto the hard shoulder between Junctions 21 and 21A, then scaled a ladder to the overhead structure. From up top he banged the wood, yelled aggressively, and shut rubber at highway officers, forcing both northbound and southbound lanes to shut. Down completely. Drivers face massive delays, all because Napp wanted his grievances heard after building up frustrations with no clear outlet. He pleaded guilty to public nuisance in Lester Magistrate's court on March 30th, got remanded on conditional bail barring him from motorways, organtries, and now awaits sentencing in Crown Court on April 20th.