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The man who has spent most of the last decade living in a cave, is relieved his six-month stint behind bars is over.

‘’I’m happy to be out,’’ the man largely known as Little John, but who is also known as John Black or John Russell Tingle, said.

He made national headlines last year, after a Stuff story revealed that he had lived in a cave, on and off, for over a decade, just near the township of Outram, near Dunedin.

His alternative lifestyle included DIY dentistry and cooking cannabis pizza. But it was the arson of ‘’a rat infested, mouldy, stinking, bullet-ridden hovel’’, which led to a new-alternative: a 12-month prison sentence.

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