October 2014
SEX offender who publicly exposed himself where children could see him on their way to school, has been given a suspended prison sentence
Sam Law, prosecuting, said Brian Hedge, 68, behaved in an indecent way in the hallway of his house with the net curtain in his front door window pulled back.
He was clearly visible to two workmen in a vehicle in the street, which was busy at the time with parents and children walking to school.
He had committed a similar offence in April 2013 and has a long record of sexual offences, York Magistrates Court heard.
District judge Adrian Lower told Hedge: “What you did was thoroughly anti-social, it was deliberate, it was done for your own satisfaction. You must have known because you live in the road there would have been a number of people walking up and down including school children.”
He gave Hedge a 16-week prison sentence suspended for two years on condition he did two years’ supervision and attend a sex offender treatment programme.
Hedge, of Wilberforce Avenue, Clifton, pleaded guilty to indecent exposure. He is on the sex offenders’ register and the probation service assess him as highly likely to reoffend.
His solicitor Chris McGrogan said: “He is a lonely gentleman in poor health and he suffers from depression. He feels very lonely and isolated.”
But when he was being supervised by the probation service, he did not offend, as he had not offended during the community order he received in April 2013.
