According to the The Sun, 'Naked Rambler' Steve Gough is costing the Scottish taxpayers £500,000.
It costs around £35,000 a year to keep the average prisoner but Gough spends most of his time behind bars in segregation, which is more expensive.
The Sun claimed that Matthew Elliott, chief executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, a British pressure group and taxpayers union formed in 2004 to campaign for a low tax society said that:
It's unbelievable that this ongoing case has been allowed to waste so much taxpayers' money. A sensible resolution has to be found, sending the naked rambler back to prison benefits no one.
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TEXT: The Sun
