Flasher needs special care says Judge
Thursday, 27th February 2003.
A JUDGE has voiced concerns over failure to provide special treatment for a Cambridge man with repeated convictions for indecent exposure.
The latest offence was committed in a public playing field in Haverhill, Judge Peter Thompson heard on Tuesday.
In the dock before him, at Ipswich Crown Court, was Nathan Frost, 28, of Great Eastern Street, Cambridge.
There was to have been a trial on a charge of outraging public decency, but Frost pleaded guilty at the last minute.
Judge Thompson postponed sentencing until March 21 for a report from the probation service. Frost was further remanded in custody, having been in custody since September 15.
The judge heard from Samantha Leigh, prosecuting, that Frost has previous convictions for indecent exposure going back to 1995.
The latest offence was on August 4 last year. Conviction for the previous offence was just six weeks earlier. He was given a two-year community rehabilitation order, to run concurrently with an order imposed in May 2001.
But his defence barrister, Constance Briscoe, pointed out he has not been given treatment to curb his "quite shocking" history of offending.
She said the judge who dealt with him in June last year had called for treatment to be given within six months of that court appearance.
Judge Thompson echoed that disquiet.
He said: "I am concerned at the very long time which has passed without some treatment for behaviour which plainly needs treatment."
But he said it was not just the probation service being blamed – Frost could not restrain himself just six weeks after his previous conviction.
Miss Leigh, giving details of the latest offence, said two girls, aged nine and 11, were making mud cakes in the muddy part of a playing field at Haverhill.
It was 7.30pm on August 4 last year. Frost approached them, asking about toilets. He then went towards some bushes. They heard him going to the toilet.
He then exposed himself to them and asked if they were embarrassed. Then, using a slang term, he asked whether they had seen a man's private parts before. He also talked about an indecent act.
One of the girls subsequently picked him out on an identity parade. In his first interview with police, Frost made no comment. There was a second interview in which he claimed he was out of the area at the time.
A joint charge against Frost and Amanda Smith, 28, of Davey Road, Cambridge, of outraging public decency on August 7 last year in Haverhill was dropped by the prosecution on February
The latest offence was committed in a public playing field in Haverhill, Judge Peter Thompson heard on Tuesday.
In the dock before him, at Ipswich Crown Court, was Nathan Frost, 28, of Great Eastern Street, Cambridge.
There was to have been a trial on a charge of outraging public decency, but Frost pleaded guilty at the last minute.
Judge Thompson postponed sentencing until March 21 for a report from the probation service. Frost was further remanded in custody, having been in custody since September 15.
The judge heard from Samantha Leigh, prosecuting, that Frost has previous convictions for indecent exposure going back to 1995.
The latest offence was on August 4 last year. Conviction for the previous offence was just six weeks earlier. He was given a two-year community rehabilitation order, to run concurrently with an order imposed in May 2001.
But his defence barrister, Constance Briscoe, pointed out he has not been given treatment to curb his "quite shocking" history of offending.
She said the judge who dealt with him in June last year had called for treatment to be given within six months of that court appearance.
Judge Thompson echoed that disquiet.
He said: "I am concerned at the very long time which has passed without some treatment for behaviour which plainly needs treatment."
But he said it was not just the probation service being blamed – Frost could not restrain himself just six weeks after his previous conviction.
Miss Leigh, giving details of the latest offence, said two girls, aged nine and 11, were making mud cakes in the muddy part of a playing field at Haverhill.
It was 7.30pm on August 4 last year. Frost approached them, asking about toilets. He then went towards some bushes. They heard him going to the toilet.
He then exposed himself to them and asked if they were embarrassed. Then, using a slang term, he asked whether they had seen a man's private parts before. He also talked about an indecent act.
One of the girls subsequently picked him out on an identity parade. In his first interview with police, Frost made no comment. There was a second interview in which he claimed he was out of the area at the time.
A joint charge against Frost and Amanda Smith, 28, of Davey Road, Cambridge, of outraging public decency on August 7 last year in Haverhill was dropped by the prosecution on February
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