A repeat indecency offender has been jailed for 10 months after exposing himself on a Dunedin beach. "You require close monitoring and oversight," Judge Michael Turner said, sentencing Stephen Edric Wilkinson (50) in the Dunedin District Court yesterday. Wilkinson, of Dunedin, had been convicted of doing an indecent act in public, on January 2. With his genitals outside his shorts, he began masturbating while watching a boy, aged about 8, playing in the sea. Judge Turner said Wilkinson’s behaviour was deliberate, in a very public place in the middle of the afternoon in the holiday season, and to gratify his own sexual needs.

Source: Otago Daily Times March 23, 2018 16:10 UTC