Man found guilty of indecent exposure in Fordingbridge
The incidents happened last year
A Southampton man has been found guilty of two counts of indecently exposing himself to dog walkers in Fordingbridge.
Robert Oakley, aged 51, was on trial at Southampton Crown Court for three days.
The court heard how he had visited a popular dog walking area near Frog Lane and at 3:20pm on January 25th 2020 he exposed himself to a 33 year old woman walking alone with her dogs.
Then, between 12:30pm and 1pm on 28th January, Oakley exposed himself to another woman.
The 34 year old female was also walking by herself with her dog.
PC Sarah Taylor said:
"We would like to thank those women who came forward and told us what happened to them. Being subjected to something like this can be very distressing and shocking, sometimes leaving a victim unsure of what to do or how to report this kind of thing to us.
We absolutely want to receive your call and bring offenders like Oakley to justice. If it's happening now, always call 999.
These incidents rightly concerned the community in Fordingbridge at the time and we're pleased to be able to say now that we were able to put a stop to this, with the community's help."
Oakley will be sentenced on May 11th.