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Drunk flasher gets 6 months
A NOTORIOUS Peterborough drunk has been jailed for six months after he exposed himself to two teenage girls.
Shepherd Gandi (40), of Bamber Street, Peterborough, was given the maximum possible sentence available by deputy district judge Roderick Hine at Peterborough Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday.
Judge Hine said he had considered sending Gandi to Crown Court, which could have imposed a greater sentence.
He said that he had relented because of Gandi’s early plea of guilty, to indecent exposure, and the time he had already spent in custody on remand waiting for the court hearing to take place.
Gandi, who has a chequered history of offences brought on by his abuse of alcohol, committed the offence in Lincoln Road on August 18.
Prosecutor Giles Beaumont told the court that Gandi had exposed himself to the girls, aged 16 and 18 years, before proceeding to perform a sex act upon himself.
He said that Gandi had also unleashed a stream of unprovoked abuse at the two girls, who were said to have been left extremely shaken by the incident.
Sentencing him, deputy district judge Hine said: “I have heard all the details of this unpleasant offence in which you exposed yourself in front of two females and then abused them in the street.
“I’m sure that they felt completely shocked by your behaviour and I seriously considered sending your case to the Crown Court.
“You have got to address your alcohol abuse sooner rather than later, otherwise your future sentences will get longer and longer.
“You exposed yourself to females aged 16 and 18, your actions were a complete disgrace.”
Mr Beaumont read out witness statements given by the two teenagers, one of whom said she had “felt sick” after Gandi’s actions.
Sara Young, defending, said Gandi’s alcohol abuse was the main catalyst for his criminal behaviour and that when he was not drunk he was a much more pleasant individual.
She said: “When he is not drinking then he is a very pleasant and polite man who does not display any of the traits that he does when he has had a drink.”
Of the six month sentence handed down by deputy district judge Hine, Gandi is only expected to serve 37 days as he was remanded in custody for 53 days between his arrest in August and his appearance in court on Tuesday.
As well as the jail sentence, Gandi was told his term on the Sex Offenders’ Register, which he was put on for a previous offence, would be extended from June 2018 to October 2018.
In August 2010, Gandi was made the subject of an Asbo banning him from drinking, begging, busking, shoplifting or using threatening language in any public place in the city centre.
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