This phone box caused Paul Bennett to get a little bit hot under the collar (Picture: Wigan Today)

A drunk man has been forced to sign the sex offenders’ register after he was caught attempting to have sex with a postbox.

Paul Bennett, 45, pleaded guilty to two charges of indecent exposure and using threatening and abusive words with abusive behaviour after a female witness caught him performing the lewd act while drunk at Scholes Precinct, Wigan.

Prosecutor Katie Beattie told Wigan and Leigh Magistrates court that the complainant initially heard swearing and shouting outside her window on September 9 last year.

Bennett was then spotted arguing with a woman, before lying down on a bench and beginning to shout.




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He then proceeded to pull his trousers down, before walking over to the postbox and beginning to ‘make sexual advances towards it’.

The court also heard how Bennett had been spotted rubbing himself against the postbox with his trousers down, before raising his arms in a star position, shouting ‘wow’.

Bennett was eventually apprehended by police, but became agitated and clenched his teeth as he shouted and swore at officers.

Martin Jones, defending Bennett said: ‘The lady watched for some time and was ashamed, disgusted and upset, and my client accepts that.

‘Clearly there are issues that need to be addressed’.

Bennett received a 12-month community order with an alcohol treatment and supervision.

He was also ordered to sign the sex offenders’ register and pay £260 in victim compensation and court costs.

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