A perverted pensioner has avoided jail after performing an indecent act while looking at a sleeping passenger on a train.
As previously reported on Chroniclelive, David Gilbert was travelling on the East Coast Main Line, between Newcastle and Edinburgh, when his dirty deed was spotted by a fellow traveller. A court heard that 76-year-old's hand was moving under a newspaper on his lap as he looked at a sleeping female passenger in a nearby seat.
He was arrested when the LNER service arrived at Newcastle Central Station after officers noticed his jean's were undone and he was was exposed. Gilbert, of Westheath Avenue, in Sunderland, appeared Newcastle Magistrates' Court earlier this month to plead guilty to outraging public decency and the case was adjourned for the preparation of a pre-sentence report.
