Bernard Condron outside Manchester Crown Court (Picture: Cavendish)

A pensioner risks a jail sentence after repeatedly masturbating and swinging his penis from side to side at his neighbours.

Bernard Condron, 75, waited until his neighbours opened their blinds in the morning and would then leap in front of his window to flash his genitals.

One woman said it happened to her every day for two months, while another neighbour said he flashed at her from his back garden.

Police were called to speak to Condron, but he ignored warnings and subsequent court orders to carry on flashing for a period of over four years.


In a statement, one of the neighbours said: ‘This is making me unwell and every day when my husband leaves the house, I am worried about what this man is going to do next. I am concerned about my young grandchildren coming to the house. I would be devastated if they were to see this man with no trousers on.’



At Manchester Crown Court, Condron who lives alone in a 1950s semi detached house in Salford, admitted three charges of indecent exposure and breaching a 2015 Sexual Harm Prevention Order which had banned him for five years from being ‘visible to any person whilst naked.’

He pleaded guilty at Manchester Crown Court (Picture: PA)

Condron, who has dementia, is currently undergoing hormone treatment to reduce his testosterone levels in a bid to curb his behaviour.

The latest incidents occurred between October 2018 and April this year after Condron had previously been reported to police for other flashing offences.

Prosecutor Nicholas Clarke said: ‘One of the neighbours said this defendant had been exposing his penis to her when she opened the blinds in the morning, as part of her normal routine.

‘She would see Bernard Condron behind a set of French doors holding his penis and she said over a two month period it happened almost everyday.

‘Some days he would be masturbating and sometimes swinging from side to side. She didn’t find this funny at all.’

Another neighbour was in her bathroom about to have a shower when she looked outside and saw Condron stood outside with no trousers on, masturbating.

In mitigation defence counsel Julian Goode said: ‘This man is 75. He is a man of poor health mentally and physically.

‘Medical treatment has been offered which will make this kind of conduct less likely as it will reduce testosterone levels, reduce sexual inclination and reduce the ability to obtain and maintain an erection.

‘The neighbours all want this to stop and he is very very concerned about his behaviour and does wish deeply that his actions will stop too.’

Deferring sentence for six months, Judge Alan Conrad QC told Condron: ‘I am not making any promises. If you stay out of trouble and behave in a way without upsetting any neighbours, there is a chance I won’t send you to prison. But if you start to expose yourself, you will be going to custody. Carry on with your medical treatment.’

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