Malcolm Downes has been given a further jail sentence of eight months for masturbating in a field of horses twice in 24 hours (Picture: MEN)

A pensioner who is obsessed with masturbating in fields where horses graze has been jailed for a second time.

Malcolm Downes, 62, has a ‘long, long history’ of pleasuring himself near the animals and was first jailed in 2016 for similar ‘totally disgusting’ behaviour, Hull Crown Court heard.

Earlier this year, he was spotted masturbating near horses twice in 24 hours.

Downes, of Spring Bank, Hull, was initially jailed for eight months in April after witnesses saw him masturbating in the Bude Park area of Bransholme, Hull, and he admitted outraging public decency.


He was back in the dock for the same offence on Monday when he again admitted the charge and was locked up for a further eight months.



Downes was first arrested on February 18 this year after witnesses saw him with his penis out, but he was let go with a warning.

Prosecutor Neil Coxon told Hull Crown Court in April: ‘It soon became clear he was in fact masturbating. This activity went on for three or four minutes. His penis was exposed for about ten minutes.

‘The matter was reported to the police and the defendant was arrested.’

Malcolm was seen pleasuring himself, arrested and then bailed, and was caught doing it again within the day (Picture: MEN)

But a day after being bailed, Downes was back in a field in the Bude Park area with his hand around his penis, this time caught by a police officer.

The court heard he had 12 similar offences among the 35 crimes on his record, as well as nine breaches of an antisocial behaviour order for masturbating in fields.

The order, which has now expired, was intended to curb Downes’ offending and banned him from ‘entering any field or stable, or any other area that contains equine animals, in the Humberside Police area’.

In May 2016, Downes appeared in court but was spared prison after being caught performing sex acts in front of horses twice in as many weeks in a field in Orchard Park, Hull, the previous October.

Horse owners saw him masturbating while standing next to a black stallion and ‘both knew of him and knew he was prohibited from being in a field with horses,’ a prosecutor told the court.

Then in June, Downes was caught doing the same thing in a field containing a number of horses in the Evergreen Drive area of west Hull.

A man challenged him after seeing he was stood close to horses but Downes claimed he had been urinating.

A judge said ‘you know you are doing wrong but you appear unable or unwilling to stop yourself’ (Picture: MEN)

But the man had taken pictures and Downes was jailed for two year, later reduced to 12 months on appeal.

He managed to go three years without committing any further acts until he was caught in February this year.

His defence barrister, Stephen Robinson, previously said Downes’ action was due to ‘some sort of lapse he can’t explain’ and said his client was apologetic for the crime.

The court heard Downes was taking part in a programme for male sex offenders and he had admitted having a sexual interest in horses.



Judge David Tremberg told him: ‘You know you are doing wrong but you appear either unable or unwilling to stop yourself.’

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