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H'ANGUS THE MONKEY HUMILIATED POLITICIAN
16:00 - 12 March 2003
Patrice is not the first person to try and throw a banana skin under the feet of mainstream politicians. Last year football club mascot H'Angus the Monkey caused a sensation by being elected as Mayor of Hartlepool.
The seven-foot fury ape humiliated the Labour candidate, who was championed by Peter Mandelson, in a ballot box shocker.
Former call centre manager Stuart Drummond, 28, was amazed to wake up in charge of a council budget of more than £1 million.
The monkey mayor, who lives with his mum, pocketed a £53,000 a year salary.
He ran on a manifesto of giving free bananas to Hartlepool's schoolchildren.
At his first council meeting the simian first citizen was confronted by a troop of grunting reporters dressed in gorilla suits.
Hartlepool FC adopted the exotic creature as their mascot as townsfolk once famously hanged a shipwrecked monkey - believing him to be a French spy.