British artist Michael Dickinson, put on trial for allegedly insulting Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has experienced the limits to freedom of expression.

The latest and last in a long series of court hearings for Dickinson was held Tuesday in Istanbul and delivered a surprise verdict against the Briton, who was being tried for placing Erdoğan’s head atop a dog’s body in two of his artworks.

The court ruled that Dickinson should pay 7,080 Turkish Liras for insulting the prime minister, but suspended the fine on probation, saying if the defendant commits the same crime within five years, he will have to pay the full fine.

Speaking after the trial, the Durham, England-born artist told Hürriyet he is glad the episode is finally over.

“The problem is he does not like to be shown in a critical way. He resents when people criticize his way,” he said.

Dickinson was previously tried by a local court, acting upon the complaint of a state prosecutor. He was acquitted by that court, said his lawyer Volkan Gültekin. “Only seven months after that decision, the Supreme Court of Appeals abolished it, and the case came in front of the same local court,” the lawyer said.

“My pictures were just a reaction at that time, and I do not need to make any more pictures like these since Turkish artists are making critical works nowadays,” Dickinson said.