A CARLISLE pensioner repeatedly flashed his genitals at shocked occupants of addresses close to his home, a court heard.

Paul Pieri, 73, was brought before a city judge and punished having exposed himself in front of three different onlookers on four separate dates.

Pieri was standing naked against his window and committing a sex act when he was spotted by a man decorating the inside of a flat on May 5 last year.

“He formed the opinion,” prosecutor Andrew Evans told Carlisle Crown Court of the man, “that the defendant was making no efforts to hide what he was doing and indeed intended to be seen by members of the public.”

While wearing an open dressing gown, Pieri committed a copycat offence, witnessed by the same man, several weeks later.

And on both September 15 and then November 4, Pieri committed repeat offences from the window of his home which were visible to females at a different nearby address. One said of the second incident that the defendant had “closed his blinds as soon as police sirens could be heard”.

That female, said Mr Evans, “felt very uncomfortable”.

In between those two incidents, Pieri was arrested. “In interview,” added the prosecutor, “the defendant admitted exposing his genitals in public with the intention that he would be seen. He accepted that this was a criminal offence.”

Pieri, of Dixon Court, Carlisle, pleaded guilty to four exposure charges which put him in breach of a suspended eight-week jail term he had received from magistrates. This was imposed for an almost identical offence, committed on May 21 last year, when he exposed himself to a postal worker.

Judge Nicholas Barker heard mitigation and that Pieri had been in custody on remand for several weeks.

The judge imposed a 36-month community order comprising a rehabilitation activity requirement of up to 30 days. Pieri must sign the sex offenders’ register for five years, and was fined £100 for flouting the suspended sentence.