Man's Motorway Stunt Causes 3-Hour Gridlock

0:00A man just got locked up for 12 months after climbing a gantry over the M1 motorway with a wooden pole in hand, forcing all lanes to shut down for over three hours straight. Earlier this week on March 28th, he headed to Mansfield House Police Station in Leicester City Center to talk to his case officer, but she was offered two weeks so he walked all the way to the motorway, got drunk, grabbed the pole, and climbed up. Meanwhile, the guy has 39 prior offenses on his record, including fresh ones for battery and harassment, he was fresh out of jail on license. And under a community order, when this went down, in court, he pleaded guilty to intentionally causing a public nuisance. His lawyer explained it stemmed from a heated neighbor dispute at his mom's place, where he just wanted some attention in a misguided way. The judge called his straight-up selfish attention, seeking that caused major harm, delaying folks heading to hospital visits, meetings, and family. Stuff on one of the country's key traffic arteries, disruption like that hits hard and

1:03echoes long after the lanes reopen. Local news, powered by AI, this is Leicester News Today. I'm Corey with the story.