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Protest priest in Asbo hearing

An eccentric former priest who disrupted the Athens Olympic marathon and the Silverstone Grand Prix will appear in court on Friday to face a anti-social behaviour order.

Neil Horan, who was defrocked in January 2005 for madcap stunts that have seen him end up in prison, is attending an application for an interim and full Asbo by Southwark Council at Camberwell Green Magistrates' Court, London.

An Asbo was previously served on him, barring him from going anywhere near the London Marathon course in 2005.

He had tried to disrupt the previous year's London Marathon, and stepped out in front of the leading runner in the men's marathon in the Olympic Games in Athens in August 2004.

This year's London Marathon is on April 22.

Horan was jailed for two months in 2003, after running onto the track at Silverstone in front of speeding cars at the British Grand Prix.

The former Catholic priest, who is representing himself, undertook the stunts to spread the message of his religious belief in a second coming, in which Jesus Christ will reign for 1,000 years in Jerusalem.

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