THE former priest who disrupted the Olympic Marathon and the British Grand Prix, was banned from the Epsom Derby at the weekend.
Cornelius Horan, who was a priest at St John Fisher RC Church, in Thanet Road, Bexley Village, in the 1970s and an assistant priest at St Anthony's RC Church in Penge, promised a High Court judge not to enter a two-mile exclusion zone around the Epsom Downs course last Friday and Saturday.
Horan, 57, now living in Nunhead, was taken to court by the racecourse officials, worried about the safety of the horses and riders and of Horan himself.
Earlier this year magistrates imposed an anti-social behaviour order on Horan to prevent him from disrupting this year's London Marathon.
In 2003 Horan ran onto the racetrack at Silverstone, interrupting the British Grand Prix and last year in Athens he pushed Brazilian runner Vanderlei de Lima off the road as he led the marathon race just four miles from the finish.
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