Taunting neighbour dropped his shorts, danced around naked and rubbed buttocks against car

An abusive neighbour hurled insults at a terrified Polish family and angrily shouted "Come on, come on" before dropping his shorts and exposing himself to them. He "danced around" naked and the shocked family, including a 13-year-old boy, was left "flabbergasted" by his drunken antics as they watched from a window, Grimsby magistrates heard. Benjamin Stevenson, 22, formerly of Grimsby, Lincolnshire, admitted using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour towards Roman and Emilia Kasprzyk and damaging a car wing mirror on April 12.

John Harris, prosecuting, told Grimsby Magistrates' Court that the family were neighbours of Stevenson at the time but the relationship between them was "not good". Mr Kasprzyk came home from work at about 10.30pm, parked his car and went inside to his wife and 13-year-old son. Their other younger child was in bed. They heard a loud bang on the front window and the boy looked out and told his father that it was Stevenson, who was standing outside bare-chested in the garden. He was gesticulating towards Mr Kasprzyk with his arms outstretched and shouted: "Come on, come on."



He wanted to fight and banged on the window and kicked the door, the court heard. Stevenson was wearing only a pair of shorts. The 13-year-old boy was left frightened by the incident. The police were called but, while the family was waiting for them to arrive, Stevenson pulled down his shorts and exposed himself while facing the window. Mr Kasprzyk was "flabbergasted" by this because it was in full view of him, his wife and his son, the court heard. "The defendant danced around and rubbed his naked buttocks against the car parked outside," said Mr Harris. "Eventually, he went away into his own house." Stevenson had since moved away from the area.

Giles Grant, mitigating, said the couple's four-year-old child was asleep in bed and, thankfully, did not see the incident. Stevenson's behaviour was not deliberately planned, but there was some background between the sides and he had been drinking. The incident was a "blip" and Stevenson had improved his behaviour from his younger days, the court was told. Alcohol was not now a problem, said Mr Grant. Stevenson, now of Scunthorpe, was given 150 hours' unpaid work, a four-week 7pm to 7am curfew and a two-year restraining order banning him from contacting the family, going to Burns Grove and harassing the family. He was also ordered to pay £250 in court costs and a Government-imposed £60 victims' surcharge.