Man who exposed himself in park 'needs treatment not punishment'
Daniel Bond was sentenced for outraging public decency at Swansea Crown Court
A MAN who pulled his trousers down and performed a sex act in the middle of the afternoon in a park full of children has been told he needs mental health treatment not punishment.
Swansea Crown Court heard that Daniel Bond was seen hanging around trees near the skate park in Swansea's Victoria Park in August last year.
Paul Hobson, for the prosecution, said a witness — a woman who was there with her daughter and grandchildren — saw the 28-year-old take his penis out of his trousers and touch himself.
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Bond then pulled up his T-shirt, dropped his trousers and performed a sex act.
The barrister said the defendant then began to exhibit "bizarre behaviour" including blowing his nose on his arm and rubbing it on the grass.
Victoria Park, Swansea
Police quickly arrived on the scene and Bond — of no fixed address — was arrested.
Bond had previously pleaded guilty to outraging public decency when he appeared via videolink from a psychiatric unit in a Devon hospital yesterday.
The court heard details of mental health reports into Bond in which he said he thought his Victoria Park behaviour "was a way to make an introduction or meet women".
The court heard he had come to live in Wales in 2015 and had lived a "peripatetic life" travelling around the country before ending up in Swansea.
Judge Christopher Vosper QC said he was satisfied that Bond was suffering from a mental disorder and that the recommendations in the psychiatric reports should be followed — he made Bond the subject of a hospital order under the Mental Health Act.
The judge told the defendant: "I hope it helps you — it is designed to help you rather than punish you."
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