A 55-year-old man, John Paul Murphy, has been handed a unique restriction as part of his sentence after he was found guilty of indecent exposure incidents on the Docklands Light Railway (DLR). The court ordered a “short shorts ban” for Murphy, preventing him from wearing short shorts on public transport. This follows his repeated actions of exposing his penis to women while staring at them on trains across East and south east London.
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The case against Murphy was presented at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court, where he pleaded guilty to three counts of indecent exposure. The incidents in question occurred earlier this year. The first incident took place on January 28, when Murphy was on the DLR between Greenwich and Heron Quays. The victim, a woman, reported that Murphy sat across from her, exposing his genitals through the leg of his short shorts and staring at her.
