A Margate man - banned from going to parks and churchyards for touching himself in public - was nabbed doing it again in Crab and Winkle Way.

Naked Ricky Neville, 46, was spotted by two women walking along the popular cycle path in Whitstable in June.

Police were called and chased a man from the path into All Saints Church where he managed to escape.

But Canterbury Crown Court heard that he left behind his stained jeans which matched his DNA.

Now Neville, of Gosvenor Place, has been jailed for 32 months for breaching Sexual Prevention Orders on three occasions and outraging public decency.

The court heard how a week after the Crab and Winkle incident an off-duty detective spotted Neville in William Street, Herne Bay standing near public toilets.

Neville claimed he was on his way to a Sci Fi Fair which was being held at a nearby school..claiming he thought it would be OK as it was on a Sunday when children wouldn’t be present.

Then in September police were alerted to a man abusing himself in woodland near Ursuline School in Westgate and Neville was later arrested.

He denied being in the woods but officers discovered he was carrying a mega rider bus ticket which had been used that day in the same area.

Judge Simon James told him he was someone unable to control himself from self-abuse in public areas.

“You have been convicted of exposing yourself, particularly to young women, time and time again.

“This will be of significant upset to your victims. You found yourself in such places as a well known and loved public path – what you did is more sinister than simply being a public nuisance.”

Neville’s previous convictions including going to a school and assaulting a young girl and has five convictions for breaching his SOPO dating back to 2008.

The judge added: “You have little or no ability to control your behaviour and you cause considerable harm and upset to others. You have also flagrantly and repeatedly ignored court orders.”

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