A revolting flasher lurking in the ladies of a North casino left a young woman terrified as he dropped his trousers and crept up behind her.
Adrian Dumitru waited for his victim outside her cubicle before exposing himself and performing a sex act as she washed her hands.
The 25-year-old of Hampstead Road, WEST END of Newcastle, had followed the woman into the toilets at the city’s Grosvenor Casino in the early hours of December 30.
Despite her calmly telling him he was in the wrong toilet he exposed himself.
Jailing him for 14 weeks at North Tyneside Magistrates’ Court magistrates, chair of the bench, Ann Hill, said: “You still to this day don’t accept the sexual gratification of this action. In fact you find the whole thing rather humorous and maintained your innocence until the morning of the trial.”
The case was explained to Dumitru, who is married, through a Romanian interpreter and at an earlier hearing he had pleaded guilty to one charge of exposure.
The court was told how he had been in the casino and at 4.30am had followed the lone woman into the female toilets.
She saw a shadow emerge on the other side of the cubicle and then to wash her hands.
Prosecutor Claire Thomasson, said: “She went to the wash basin and washed her hands and became aware of the defendant coming out of a female toilet cubicle. She described his trousers down and his hands around his groin area. She states she got a fright but immediately informed the male that he was in the female toilets and he replied ‘sorry, no problem’.”
But he left his trousers down and started to touch himself.
Ms Thomasson added: “She was shocked and frightened about what was going to happen next. The defendant approached her. She knew he was standing behind her and at that point she was extremely frightened.”
He then moved to the side of her and she was able to leave the toilets and call staff, who called the police.
Defending, Alana Wesencraft said: “He doesn’t accept absolutely everything that has been said by the prosecution. I would respectfully submit that it’s not something sinister - he has a version of events.”
She also asked the bench to consider not sending him to prison and to avoid a punishment that would involve him signing the sex offenders register for the impact that it would have on his family.
During the hearing friends in the public gallery LAUGHED as details emerged.
Dumitru was jailed and ordered to pay £250 to his victim.
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