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<\/p>\nA man who dove nude into a river and started touching himself in public after getting wasted on booze has been jailed.<\/p>\n
Gary Ashby, 41, had wandered through the river after stripping off in a river close to the centre of Norwich. He was spotted staring at a teenage girl while completely naked near Cow Tower, Norwich Magistrates Court was told.<\/p>\n
Families with children often paddle at the River Wensum in summer months. Ashby's nude terror took place on June 21 this year.<\/p>\n
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Police were called to the lake after members of the public noticed the man was swimming around without any clothes on. He was then seen staring in the direction of a teenage girl, at which point he began pleasuring himself.<\/p>\n
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Ashby pleaded guilty to a single charge of outraging public decency. The court heard the incident occurred while the defendant was already subject to a seven year sexual harm prevention order imposed in 2017.<\/p>\n
Said order was in relation to a charge of viewing indecent images of children, Norwich Evening News reported. Ashby had been jailed for six months at Maidstone Magistrates Court and received a 12 month suspended sentence for possessing over 1,100 indecent child images.<\/p>\n
District Judge David Wilson said: "A number of people who were present became very concerned about your behaviour and your intentions. This offence is a serious one and it continues a line of offending of a sexual nature on this occasion targeting a person aged under 18."<\/p>\n
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Lisa Robinson, mitigating, said: "It's fair to say he actually has no recollection of the incident due to his alcohol consumption. He does not present an unmanageable risk to the public."<\/p>\n
Ashby has since been sentenced to a three year community order requiring him to complete 200 hours unpaid work, 20 rehabilitation days and wear an alcohol monitoring tag for six months.<\/p>\n
A further five year sexual harm protection order has also banned him from contacting anyone aged under 18. <\/p>\n
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