A traffic pest known as the “Silent Man” because he stands quietly in the middle of busy roads has been arrested again – 28 days after being freed from jail for the same crime.

David Hampson, 54, has refused to explain why he has blocked traffic on Grove Place Road outside Swansea Central Police station since 2014.

Hampson has been convicted of the same offence 12 times and has been repeatedly jailed.

He refuses to explain himself to police, judges, or psychiatrists and will not speak to confirm his name in court.

Swansea Magistrates’ Court heard he was jailed for six months in April of this year, but was freed from prison early.

Just 28 days after his sentence, Hampson carried out the same crime at the same location and was arrested on June 19.

Hampson again refused to speak to anyone and was jailed again for six months.

A court previously placed him under a criminal behaviour order banning him from blocking the highway without lawful authority, but he carried on.

At his previous hearing for his April crimes, Hampson refused to speak in Swansea magistrates’ court when accused of two counts of wilfully obstructing the highway.

He refused legal advice or a solicitor and did not plead in his continuing campaign of silence.