A man has boasted about being a 'wanted man' after he skipped a court hearing for engaging in sex acts with a woman in public. Joe Firby, 23, from Gateshead was caught on camera performing sex acts with Kelly Cousins, 35, in Concert Square in Liverpool.
Joe and Kelly met in the gym and went on a date in Liverpool city centre on August 1, 2022. It was then that explicit videos of the pair, who had both drank heavily, were published on social media sparking a police investigation.
Firby was identified in the footage by his girlfriend at the time, while Cousins was identified by her social worker. Firby was due to appear at Liverpool Magistrates’ Court on September 20, 2022, but emailed the courts to say he had lost his job and did not have the money to hire a solicitor or travel from the North East to Liverpool.
