By Cam Lucadou-Wells
A man has told a court that he had no memory of wilfully and obscenely exposing himself outside a Doveton pub.
The man sat with his head in hands at Dandenong Magistrates’ Court as he heard how staff at Prince Mark Hotel had seen him drop his underwear and touch himself about 8.20am on 20 December.
Before the incident, the apparently “substance affected” man was a regular at the hotel.
That morning, he had been wandering in the car park after first entering the hotel through an unlocked door.
He later told police he was embarrassed by his behaviour.
“I can’t believe I was sitting there having a tug,” he said.
“F***, I deserve a smack.”
The accused’s lawyer told the court the man was drunk and medicated but not ice-affected, having cut all his drug-taking associates from his life.
He had formerly used about a gram of ice a day and was proud of the progress he’d made on a community corrections order.
He now feared he was facing a jail term for breaching his corrections order by offending.
“He doesn’t usually drink,” the lawyer said.
“He started drinking by himself for a number of hours and doesn’t remember the incident.”
Magistrate Jack Vandersteen said the act was “out of character” for the man, who was doing well on his community corrections order, was in full employment and passing his drug screens.
“I can’t believe you were doing it either.
“When you abuse alcohol, it can undo all the good work.”
Mr Vandersteen fined the man $1000 and added judicial monitoring to the correction order’s conditions.
“Don’t do this again,” Mr Vandersteen said.
“It’s hugely embarrassing to you.”
