Locations
Middlewich Road, Holmes Chapel, Crewe, Cheshire East, CW4
Description
A REGISTERED sex offender is behind bars after being found lying naked next to a towpath on the Trent and Mersey Canal in Middlewich.
Christopher Higgins was in the nude next to the towpath near to Leadsmithy Street in the town on May 21.
Cheshire Police attended and arrested the 49-year-old, of Holmes Chapel Road, Middlewich, advising him to put on clothes while officers conducted their checks.
At Chester Magistrates Court the following day he pleaded guilty to one count of exposure and one count of outraging public decency.
He was sentenced to eight months in prison as, according to court documents, he is a 'repeat offender' causing 'anxiety against women'.
He is to be subject to the requirements of the sex offenders register for another decade.