Family’s shock as couple perform sex act in street
AYOUNG family were prompted to call police when they caught a couple performing in a sex act in a Southport street.
The mum was with her 12-month-old daughter and 13-year-old son when they spotted the couple performing the sex act on June 4.
Jenny Beresford and Shaun Anderson were charged with outraging public decency after they were seen by the family.
Anderson, 33, of Leicester Street, Southport, appeared before Liverpool Magistrates’ Court on June 5, where he pleaded guilty to two offences.
He admitted outraging public decency by removing his trousers and partaking in a sex act as well as drinking alcohol in a public place – putting him in breach of a criminal behaviour order.
Beresford appeared in court on Monday, July 13 where she admitted outraging public decency. Andrew Page, prosecuting, explained how the young family came across the couple in Mornington Road at 5.30pm.
Beresford was heavily intoxicated when the incident took place, the court heard.
The 44-year-old, of Bath Street North, represented herself in court, and told District Judge Paul Healey she had suffered from misuse of alcohol.
Beresford has a number of previous convictions including in assaulting a police officer in 2010, battery in 2011, criminal damage in 2012 and ABH in 2016.
But in the intervening two years she had not been before the court as she had stopped drinking.
When the incident took place she had relapsed into alcohol misuse following a bereavement after which she became homeless, although the court heard that she is now staying with a friend.
Judge Healey described the incident as “really appalling” for the young family, saying: “No child should be subject to that.”
Beresford was ordered to complete a 12-month community order during which she must undertake six months of alcohol treatment and up to 20 days of work with probation.
An eight-week curfew was also imposed and she was ordered to pay costs of £85 and a victim surcharge of £95.
At an earlier hearing Anderson was ordered to serve a six-month prison sentence, imposed following the aggravating factor of his previous offending.