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Police have released this CCTV footage of a man they want to speak to on suspicion of DEFECATING in a railway station lift.

Disgusted staff found human excrement in Prestatyn station when they turned up for work on Friday, June 13.

British Transport Police have now released this CCTV footage of a man they would like to speak to in connection with the incident.

He is shown desperately pressing the lift call button before lowering his shorts in the lift.

Bizarrely, it is far from the first time Prestatyn station lift has been used by a public toilet, the Daily Post reports.

Last summer, CCTV cameras caught a man stripping naked before urinating in the same spot.

BTP has now launched a crackdown on "shameless" passengers who use train stations as toilets.

The force has urged those who urinate and defecate at stations to "clean up their act" or face the consequences, and will send officers out onto the region's stations and trains to tackle the "revolting" problem over the coming weeks.

Sergeant Tony Stamp of British Transport Police said: “In recent months, we have seen an increase in incidents of anti-social behaviour, particularly people urinating and defecating on station premises.

“This is very much about standards of behaviour and is often influenced by alcohol consumption.

“This conduct often occurs in lifts, which are there for people with mobility issues who rely on them to get to and from platforms. On other occasions, these acts have been committed in full sight of other passengers.

“The main impact is on the staff who have to clean up after these people. For railway workers and members of the public to have to encounter urine and faeces in public areas of railway stations is frankly revolting and utterly unacceptable.

“More often than not, there are toilets available, but the people responsible have made no effort to ask for them or to use the toilets on the trains.

"Anyone committing such an offence could be banned from travelling on the rail network and will receive a criminal record, which may affect their employment."

Anyone with information regarding the offence or any others should call British Transport Police.