This one is for the record book!
A commuter accused of indecency on a train has walked free after telling a court he was strumming an imaginary banjo.
Before
Melvyn Webb was acquitted, the judge in his trial had informed the jury
that men do sometimes innocently ‘fiddle with themselves in public’.
The case arose after a woman complained of seeing a newspaper moving on his lap as he breathed heavily.
Mr
Webb, 54, denied a single charge of outraging public decency on the
7.08am Basingstoke to Reading train, saying he was merely adjusting his
underwear.
After his
arrest, the health and safety adviser told police: ‘For my sins I play
the banjo, so sometimes I do, with my hands, pick out a pattern on my
knees....’
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