A MAN and woman have been found guilty of having sex in a park after their claims that they were actually squeezing a spot were labelled “inherently unreliable and not believable”.
Laurence Munks (43) and his 46-year-old partner, Lisa Farrington, denied the charge of “committing an act of a lewd and obscene nature” by having intercourse in West Park in view of members of the public on the evening of 3 September last year.
Three witnesses told last week’s one-day trial in the Magistrate’s Court that they had seen the couple having sex.
But both Munks and Farrington maintained that they had been pretending to simulate having sex as a joke and that the witnesses had mistaken it as genuine.
Munks said he had been behind Farrington as she leaned forward in order to squeeze a spot in a rash on her neck.
The Magistrate, Bridget Shaw, said yesterday(MON): “I heard three independent witnesses who were honest and reliable.”
Of the defendants, she said: “Their story about squeezing a spot was inherently unreliable and not believable.”
The couple were released on bail until 6 June to allow time for a pre-sentence report to be prepared.
