Prison for flasher who carried out vile acts in front of two women – including a female police officer

HE'D BEEN GIVEN A SUSPENDED SENTENCE FOR THE FIRST OFFENCE JUST DAYS BEFORE

- By MARTIN NAYLOR

A NOTTINGHAM criminal with an astonishing 67 convictions for 165 offences was twice caught exposing himself to women.

On the first occasion, Stephen Hind was seen touching himself sexually by a woman as she looked out of her window.

Then, four days after being given an opportunity to avoid a prison term with a suspended sentence, he carried out the same lewd act in front of a female police officer.

Jailing the 39-year-old for a total of 22 months at Nottingham Crown Court, Judge Julie Warburton said: "On the first offence you were shouting at her from outside her house and she looked out.

"She heard you saying that you loved her but then she saw you touching yourself [sexually] with a can of alcohol in your hand.

"You were arrested for that and handed a sexual harm prevention order in August.

"Four days later you committed the second set of offences which involved shoplifting wine from a Tesco store, having already stolen a bottle of wine earlier from an Iceland store.