Loyalist granted bail to appear on Jeremy Kyle Show
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/may/21/loyalist-granted-bail-jeremy-kyle-show-itv Version 0 of 1. A loyalist accused of disorderly and threatening behaviour was granted bail on Wednesday in a Belfast court so he can appear on the Jeremy Kyle Show. Frederick Boyd asked the high court in the city to free him so he could take a lie detector test on the ITV programme. The 22-year-old appeared in court charged with disorderly behaviour after waving a union flag and shouting obscenities outside Belfast city hall in January. Specifically: "No surrender. Fuck the pope and up the Shankill." Boyd also faces charges of assault and possession of an offensive weapon with intent after threatening a businessman in Newtownards, County Down this year. Boyd's legal team applied for his release from jail because they said he had been targeted in connection with something else and beaten up in prison. They said their client wanted to appear on the Jeremy Kyle Show, take part in a lie detector test and clear his name in relation to allegations unrelated to the disorderly behaviour. "He tells me one of the reasons he's desperate to be released on bail is that he's determined to try and take a lie detector test," his lawyer said in the crown court in Belfast on Wednesday. "He thinks the best way to do that is on the Jeremy Kyle TV show," he said. The judge asked Boyd's lawyers if this show was similar to the Stephen Nolan Show, the BBC Northern Ireland TV programme hosted by the Radio 5 Live talk show presenter. Boyd replied that the Jeremy Kyle Show was "more extreme" to which the judge commented: "I can't for a minute imagine that." Granting strict bail conditions the judge ordered electronic tagging after Boyd asked him to include this to ensure police could not accuse him of any breach. He was also ordered to stay out of the centre of Newtonards. Directing the accused to seek medical help within three days, the judge added: "You're only 22 years of age and you look about 45. You can't go on like this. You have to get your life sorted out." |