Locations
Hall Street, St. Helens, Merseyside, WA10
Description
A 'sweating' and 'fully naked' pervert ogled a group of teens from his balcony as he performed a sex act on himself.
A horrified onlooker witnessed Trevor Smith performing the sex act while looking at a group of around nine teenagers on March 18 this year.
She said she "felt physically sick" and called police, who discovered the 50-year-old sweating profusely and "out of breath" as pornography played from his mobile phone.
Chris Hopkins, prosecuting at Liverpool Crown Court, explained the disgusted onlooker lived in an adjacent apartment block and "at about 9.50pm was alerted to a noise in the street".
Mr Hopkins said: "She looked out her window and saw a group of about nine teens, male and female, were walking along in the street.
"She then noticed this defendant hanging out of his window."
Mr Hopkins said he was "well known" by neighbours and the woman recognised him.
Smith had his hand on the window ledge and was "leaning over the window ledge looking towards the ground".
The woman saw when Smith stepped back from the balcony that he was "fully naked" with his "boxer shorts pulled down to his knees".
Mr Hopkins said Smith appeared to be performing a sex act on himself.
He said: "She was horrified and felt physically sick, especially because the group of kids walking passed and he was looking out towards them."
She said it was "disgusting" and near a busy road, adding "anybody could have seen what he was doing".
The horrified woman called police, who arrived to find Smith "wearing a towel", "out of breath" and "sweating".
They searched his bedroom and discovered a bag of cannabis and noted that on his mobile phone "pornography was visibly on display".
On June 19, 2012 Smith was handed a 12-month conditional discharge for outraging public decency.
He was handed a community order for three years in June 2016 for a similar offence which he later breached by failing to comply and for drug and drink driving, for which he was locked up for three months.
On October 24, 2019 he was handed a 26 week sentence suspended for two years after he was found "intoxicated in a lift at a train station thrusting his hips towards a cleaner's cone" which was witnessed by members of the public.
He breached this suspended sentence by committing the offence on March 18 and was remanded into custody. He will also have to serve part of the 2019 sentence that was suspended.
Mark Philips, defending, emphasised it was unlikely the group of teenagers would have seen Smith as he lived on one of the higher floors and it was late at the time of the offence.
He said: "He tells me he has looked at himself whilst in prison and realises his whole offending has been related to drug abuse."
Mr Philips said Smith has started a drug awareness course and he now wants to "start his life".
He explained Smith had completed his suspended sentence in part and carried out Rehabilitation Activity Requirements.
Smith, of Hall Street, St Helens, admitted possession of cannabis, exposure and breaching his suspended sentence order.
Judge Stuart Driver, sentencing, said the offences were aggravated because "you were focused on the group of teenagers when you committed this offence" and because of his criminal record.
The judge jailed him for 10 months.
Smith must also sign the Sex Offenders Register for 10 years.