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A pervert pensioner stripped naked and stood at his window when a school bus dropped girls off outside his home, a court has heard. Thomas Beattie, 71, also showed girls a photograph of his penis on his mobile phone.
The former soldier denied the allegations but has now been convicted after a trial. During the trial the district judge was shown a photograph on a girl's phone which backed up the evidence against Beattie.
The LiverpoolECHO reports that Beattie was only charged over one day of exposure. However, District Judge Wendy Lloyd told him: “It was well known that you would be naked at the window at the time the school bus arrived.”
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Shannen Carey, prosecuting, told Liverpool Magistrates’ Court that in March last year the mum of a 15-year-old schoolgirl told police that her daughter had told her that she had seen Beattie exposing himself from a front window on a number of occasions over the space of a year. "She walked past Beattie’s home and saw him stood in his front window with a phone to his ear," Ms Carey said.
"As she walked past he turned the telephone away towards her and on the telephone screen she saw a clear photograph of a penis. It looked like it had been taken from above as a selfie-style shot. He said something but she only heard the word ‘inch’. She went home and told her mum."
Beattie, of Newton-le-Willows, was found guilty of exposure and causing a child aged 15 to look at an image of sexual activity.
The defendant, who has no previous convictions, represented himself at the sentencing hearing, and told the court “I’m innocent. “I
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