The defendant Sir Charles Sedley showed himself naked on the balcony of a house in Covent Garden in the presence of several people and urinated on them. He was indicted at common law for outraging public decency and pleaded guilty, the magistrate ruling that: ‘Not withstanding that there was not any Star Chamber, yet they would leave him to know that the Court of King’s Bench was the custos morum of all the King’s subjects and that it was then high time to punish such profane actions, committed against all modesty, when they were as frequent as if not only Christianity but morality also had been neglected.’
Citations:
(1675) Strange 168, [1675] 1 Sid 168
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Hamilton, Regina v CACD 16-Aug-2007
The defendant appealed his conviction for outraging public decency. He had surreptitously filmed up the skirts of women in a supermarket. The offence was only discovered after the films were found on a search of his home for other material. The . .
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Crime
Updated: 10 May 2022; Ref: scu.258775