Man addicted to DRINKING fuel

A man with a bizarre addiction to petrol has been caught attempting to get high on a garage forecourt.

Brian Taylor, 45, was banned from petrol stations in 2005 after slashing the pumps so that he could drink the liquid and inhale fumes.

After drinking the fuel Taylor was spotted dancing around garage forecourts high on the toxic fumes.

Addict: Brian Taylor, 45, is addicted to petrol, and breached an order banning him from petrol stations. He is pictured here in 2004 drinking from a pump

Asbo: Taylor is banned from going to petrol stations and having petrol in public

Consequences: Taylor has been warned he faces a return to jail if he puts 'one foot wrong' in future

The holes Taylor left in the fuel lines would mean the next driver to use the pump would end up covered in petrol.

He was jailed, and given an Asbo banning him from forecourts and having petrol in public, but has repeatedly breached the order.

Taylor, from Brotton, near Middlesbrough, was arrested again after being spotted at two petrol stations on the same day - a Morrisons and a Tesco outlet, both in Redcar, north Yorkshire.

Court papers show that he was found with an open container of petrol.

He was brought before magistrates in Teesside, where he admitted the offences and was given a suspended 16-week prison term and told to pay £120 in costs.

Taylor's lawyer said that he accepted he had 'taken the drips from the petrol pumps', which she described as ''not a particularly sophisticated offence.'

Dodged jail: Taylor, pictured here in 2005, was given a 16-week suspended prison sentences

The court heard that, although his history was an aggravating factor, Taylor's life was 'a lot more settled than it has been in recent years' and he was attending appointments with the probation service.

When he was first convicted it emerged that Taylor had tried to attend meetings to fix his problem, but smelled so strongly of petrol that he was deemed a fire hazard and told to leave.

At the sentencing on New Year's Eve, the chairman of the Teesside magistrates said it was disappointing to see him in court again, and that he was close to being sent back to prison.

He said: 'You put one foot wrong now and you are going to go away.'

SOURCE-DAILYM