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Members of the public were left shocked and disgusted after a man was seen at Grimsby bus station naked from the waist down.

He was desperate to use a toilet and had defecated there, a court heard.

His solicitor blamed a shortage of public toilets for the homeless man's actions.

Jamie Dyke, 23, of no fixed address, admitted using threatening or abusive behaviour on August 23.

Kate Fairburn, prosecuting, told Grimsby Magistrates Court that Dyke was walking around the town's bus station naked from the waist down at 9.30am.

His private parts and buttocks were clearly visible. Next to him were tracksuit bottoms and a pile of excrement. He had also soiled himself down the back of his legs.

His eyes were glazed and he was "under the influence of something".

Dyke was originally charged with outraging public decency but that matter was dropped.

He admitted failing to register his details as a sex offender between August 17 and 20. The order was imposed on June 20.

Craig Davy, mitigating, said that Dyke was desperate to use a toilet at the time and defecated in public.

"He now accepts, thinking rationally, that's not the place to do that," said Mr Davy.

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"The problem for him as a homeless man is there's not many public toilets.

"There's little you can do. He did remove his trousers to put a new pair of trousers on, which he did.

"The place where he did it was not an appropriate place."

Dyke originally got the sex offender notification order for doing a "moonie" outside a leisure centre while "pratting around".

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He was unaware of the serious consequences that would follow.

Dyke had been addicted to drugs since childhood and this had a "dramatic effect" on his life.

He was sleeping rough in fields and doorways, was addicted to alcohol and drugs, and had been in and out of prison recently.

Dyke was jailed for three weeks, to run concurrently with being recalled to prison until September 30 for breaching his licence.