A pervert who dropped his towel and performed a sex act in a swimming pool changing room claimed that his towel 'slipped'. However Michael Reid, aged 55, failed to convince a jury and was sentenced to nine months behind bars.Preston Crown Court heard how Reid, from Whalley, Lancashire, was using the poolside changing rooms when he exposed his genitals and performed an explicit act in the presence of a child, aged ten, Lancs Live reports.
He was confronted by a mother who had taken two children swimming, who proceeded to call him a paedophile and raise the alarm.
Sentencing, Judge Simon Medland QC said that Reid waited until the child was near the lockers before committing the vile offence.
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