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A man with a very large penis was accused of shoplifting due to his suspicious package.

Steve Whitehurst and his girlfriend Mandy Shenton were at the till of Scotts Menswear in Stoke-on-Trent buying £400 of gear when a female manager made a stinging accusaiton.

As Ms Shenton's 18-month-old granddaughter watched on, the probing staff member pointed at the 47-year-old's bulge.

She accused Mr Whitehurst of having stuffed clothes down the front of what he later admitted were "very tight jeans".

In a bid to clear his name, the under-fire shopper dropped his trousers to the floor.

“I can’t help the way I’m made. I just kept telling her that it was my penis,” the window fitter told The Sun.

Despite presenting his boxer clad lower half to the manager, he was not yet free of suspicion.

"What is that bulge?" the woman asked, gesturing to his heftily proportioned private area.

Mr Whitehurst was then taken to a cubicle by a security male security guard, he claimed, and made to show his 10 inch penis.

The guard shook his head, left the cubicle and approached the manager, who said: "Please tell me he's got something down there?"

He replied: "No".

Following what was the "craziest" experience of his life, Mr Whitehurst complained to Scotts menswear's parent company JD Sports.

Ms Shenton said: “It was so humiliating. What they did to Steve was disgusting."

Staff at the store deny asking Mr Whitehurst to expose himself and claimed there was "good grounds" to suspect him.

They claimed they found a missing electronic tag in a jacket he tried on, and the bulge was “much smaller than staff remembered it”.