Bradley Grimes - The Fake Homeless Beggar
3 videos • 83 views • by Nathan Andrew Smiddy Troubled Bradley Grimes travelling to North Yorks to beg - but police urge people not to give money. The 'sad case' of the 26-year-old Middlesbrough man's circumstances have regularly been highlighted in court. A troubled Middlesbrough beggar who previously asked to be locked up to escape his chaotic lifestyle has landed in court again. Bradley Grimes has become a familiar face in courtrooms across Teesside for begging and breaching court orders - and now it's emerged he's been travelling to North Yorkshire to beg. A top judge previously claimed the vulnerable 26-year-old should be "looked after, not criminalised". The former Recorder of Middlesbrough Simon Bourne-Arton QC had heard Grimes had been in care since the age of seven, been sleeping in shop doorways and was suffering from a brain tumour and had autism. Fearing a constant cycle of arrests for begging and living rough, he asked to be locked up in jail in 2017 - but in 2018, another judge locked him up for constantly breaching court orders. Judge Sean Morris told him he hoped jail would help him get clean of heroin - and urged him to seek hospital treatment, which Grimes had refused, for his tumour. Now, police in North Yorkshire have urged people not to give him money after catching him regularly travelling to Thirsk and Northallerton to beg. The force says Grimes has accommodation in Middlesbrough and is in receipt of benefits. On occasions, he has been found with over £200 in his possession, given to him by members of the public. Grimes was handed a Criminal Behaviour Order at Teesside Magistrates Court in 2018. The order bans him from begging anywhere in the UK. The Criminal Behaviour Order orders Grimes not to: Ask or attempt to ask members of the public for money, food or other items of value. Loiter for the purposes of begging. Grimes has persistently breached it and has been arrested four times in North Yorkshire since December. Grimes pleaded guilty to breaching the Criminal Behaviour Order when he appeared at court on Tuesday and Wednesday. North Yorkshire Police said his behaviour breached the Criminal Behaviour Order and Coronavirus Regulations. A force spokesperson said: "Members of the public are urged not to encourage Mr Grimes’ offending by giving him money or food vouchers, which in turn should steer him towards the help and support provided locally."