Man with troublesome genital wart guilty of outraging public decency

A man has been given a community order for exposing himself to cleaners while in his office. Stephen Dick, from Langton Lea, High Shincliffe, Durham, who had pleaded guilty at a previous hearing to outraging public decency in a public place, appeared before Consett Magistrates Court on Monday.

Police were called to Tursdale Business Park, near Durham, just before 2.30pm on December 20 after cleaners reported seeing the 50-year-old performing a sex act on himself through an office window. Janet Coxon, prosecuting, said: “The first cleaner said she had looked through the window and saw the man. She maintained eye contact for around five seconds before she dropped her mop in shock.” Two other members of staff were called and confirmed they saw the same thing.



But when Dick was arrested he told police he was applying cream to a genital wart, which he showed officers interviewing him. The court heard Dick was given a police caution in May 2005 after he was seen by a student exposing himself in his car. He told officers he was applying cream to a genital wart on that occasion as well.

The court heard Dick has made an appointment with his GP for an appointment at hospital to have the wart removed. He was sentenced to a 12 month community order, 60 hours unpaid work and told he must pay £85 prosecution costs and a £60 victim surcharge.