Premier League footballer's love rival 'tried to have sex with a car'

A love rival of Premier League footballer Andy Carroll “tried to have sex with a car”, a court heard. Rob Curran, 36, was caught in broad daylight on a busy street with his genitals out, “gyrating and thrusting” his groin against the bonnet of a black BMW. He was spotted by a horrified female witness as she drove down Station Road, in Backworth, North Tyneside.

Curran was arrested and pleaded guilty to one count of exposure at North Tyneside Magistrates’ Court, where he claimed he couldn’t remember anything because he was “paralytic”. The former Royal Marine was once arrested but never charged over an arson attack on Andy Carroll's car in 2010. Rebecca Gibson, prosecuting, told the court the indecent exposure happened at 5.30pm on April 28. She said: “The witness was driving through Station Road, which is a busy main road. She noticed a man and thought he looked like he was stretching against a car bonnet, as if he was about to go for a run.



“She looked again and noticed the car was a black BMW, which was parked up. The male was in front of the bonnet.” In a statement from the witness, she said: “I then saw the male had his genitals hanging out the front of his shorts ... he was gyrating and thrusting against the car bonnet. I thought, ‘The dirty bastard, he’s having sex with the car’. I couldn’t believe a man would stand in public, fully thrusting against the bonnet of a vehicle.” The court heard the witness drove on and saw an unsuspecting mother and young child walking towards Curran.

After returning home to get her mum and brother, she went back to Station Road but found the car gone and Curran, previously of Jesmond, Newcastle, but now living in Whitley Bay, sitting fully clothed on a nearby wall. Mark Harrison, defending, said Curran was deeply remorseful for what he’d done. He said: “The police didn’t consider this sinister behaviour. They described it more as drunk stupidity. I don’t ever recall a more embarrassed, ashamed and remorseful individual. He hasn’t stopped apologising. He can’t put an explanation to it because he can’t remember it.” Magistrates’ adjourned sentencing for the preparation of reports.