A sex-addict former Margate radio presenter performed a sex act in a bush then ran from police flashing his genitals - just two days after being released from prison.

“You’re out for two days and there you go, at it again,” Judge Rupert Lowe told Ricky Neville, 51, who was spotted ducking and diving in Margate shrubs.

“You have a strong urge to go out and do that in bushes, seemingly looking at people.

“You were released (from prison) on the Friday, on Sunday you went off and did it again - going to some bushes near Dane Park where you removed your trousers, you had no pants on anyway, and you started doing it as you have done before.”

Canterbury Crown Court heard a witness glanced from her window to spot Neville in a state of undress, hiding when cars and walkers passed.

She called 999 and as officers rounded on the thicket Neville leaped over a wall in a bid to flee on December 13.

Arrested within minutes he told officers: “I’m sorry you have to see this - I didn’t think anyone could see me.”

In interview Neville explained he became “overwhelmed” with the lurid urge while at his Grosvenor Place home.

Prosecutor Gareth Burrows explained Neville’s compulsion is reflected in his lengthy criminal record, including 18 indecent exposures, six indecent assaults and nine breaches of Sexual Harm Prevention Orders.

More recently the former radio broadcaster, who has diagnosed sexual OCD, was locked up for stalking in 2017, causing one woman great distress, the court heard.

He's been jailed for lurking near a school, performing a sex act in bushes, being naked in public, spying on passersby, flashing but has also suffered from not having access to the treatment he needs due to "bungling bureaucracy".

But Emin Kandola, defending, argued more needed to be done to cure his pattern of behaviour - she pressed the judge to order psychiatric reports.

“Prison isn’t working,” she said.

“Well, it is, because when he’s inside he isn’t out ruining public decency,” Judge Lowe countered.

“But then he comes back out only to go back in,” Miss Kandola advanced.

“Then he goes back in (jail) then,” the judge responded.

After refusing to order a psychiatric assessment the judge told Neville: “You take the view that you are ill and need more help.

“The probation officer’s view is you have been given that help and don’t take advantage of it.”

Neville was jailed for two years for breaching a SHPO and outraging public decency.

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