Troubled priest banned from marathon (From This Is Local London)

Troubled priest banned from marathon

8:51am Wednesday 23rd March 2005 in

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A PRIEST who gatecrashed the Olympics and British Grand Prix, has been banned from next month's London Marathon.

Magistrates slapped an anti-social behaviour order on Father Cornelius Horan preventing him from entering five of the six boroughs the race runs through.

The former Bexley priest is only allowed to be in Southwark because he lives there and even then he is forbidden from entering an exclusion zone around the marathon course.

Metropolitan Police applied for the order banning him from the April 17 event with a spokesman saying: "People are entitled to expect a well-organised enjoyable day, unmarred by disruption or disorder by individuals seeking self-publicity."

Father Horan, 57, who once served at St John Fisher Church in Thanet Road, Bexley Village, ruined Brazilian runner Vanderlei de Lima's chances of a gold medal when he jumped out on him during the Athens Olympic marathon last August.

He also caused mayhem running out onto the racetrack during the Silverstone Grand Prix in July last year.