Add The New York Post on Google A Welsh ghoul dressed as the “Grim Reaper” has been busted after he climbed onto a hospital building’s roof armed with what appeared to be a scythe and stared at doctors and patients.
Leon Gillespie, 26, was fined $269 (£200) last month after scaling the Ysbyty Glan Clwyd hospital to pull off the menacing stunt in Wales on June 6, the North Wales Pioneer reported Monday.
Gillespie, sporting a black hooded costume which he claimed resembled a crow and armed with a long blade, was on top of the building for around 50 minutes and made noises to those on the ground.
Gillespie, from the small Welsh town of Deganwy, was eventually brought down from the building and was charged with causing a nuisance or disturbance without reasonable excuse on NHS (National Health Service) grounds.
A man dressed as the ‘Grim Reaper’ scaled a hospital building and stared at doctors and patients. WALES NEWS SERVICE He appeared in court on July 15 and copped to the nuisance charge.
During the hearing, Gillespie said his costume wasn’t designed to resemble the “Grim Reaper” – the hooded skeletal character who carries a curved blade and symbolizes death. He claimed he was dressing up as a bird.
It also emerged that Gillespie had scaled the building after carrying out two shoplifting offenses.
He stole cat food and litter worth around $50 from a pet store in Llandudno, North Wales, on March 26, and goods from a Sainsbury’s supermarket in the same town on May 28.
He had to pay around $336 (£250) for those two offenses.
Leon Gillespie scaled the roof of the Ysbyty Glan Clwyd hospital. WALES NEWS SERVICE The Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board – Wales’ largest health board, which manages the Ysbyty Glan Clwyd hospital – said it has a “zero tolerance approach to abuse, aggression or nuisance within its hospital sites.”
North Wales cops said Gillespie was “charged with other than for the purpose of obtaining medical advice, treatment or care, caused, without reasonable excuse, a nuisance or disturbance to a National Health Service staff member who was working there or was otherwise there in connection with work, and refused, without reasonable excuse, to leave the premises when asked to do so by a constable.”
