A naturist rambler has taken up the cudgels of nude walking while the original Naked Rambler Stephen Gough languishes in a Scottish jail.

Nigel Keer of Leeds was fined for walking in just his boots and a cap at a West Yorkshire beauty spot last year.

The 41-year-old was arrested by an off-duty police officer who spotted him at Otley Chevin in October.

PC Mark Buxton said a woman dog walker who passed him while he was out running had a ‘disgusted frown’ on her face.

Keer told Leeds Magistrates that being naked is not an offence. He disputed that the woman PC Buxton said he has seen even existed.

But Judge Christopher Darnton found him guilty of a public order offence after causing offence to the woman and fined him £315.

Keer told the court he did not intend to cause offence. He pulled clothes out of the rucksack he was carrying and put them on after the police officer accosted him.

Keer, who lists skinnydipping as his favourite sport on his Facebook page, said he would appeal against the verdict.

He raised £112 for charity in June last year with 24-mile naked walk of Yorkshire’s Three Peaks, Pen-y-ghent, Whernside and Ingleborough.

Stephen Gough, the original Naked Rambler, was arrested again last August within minutes of stepping naked from Perth Sheriff Court after the latest in a long line of brushes with the law.

The ex-marine twice managed to complete a naked walk from Land’s End to John O’Groats after numerous arrests. On his most recent appearance, Sheriff Michael Fletcher found him guilty of conducting himself in a disorderly manner by walking naked, refusing to put clothes on, and breaching the peace in a street in Perth.