‘I only played with my cock on the bus because I lost my fidget spinner!’

A MAN caught fondling his PENIS on a bus told police he was only playing with himself because he’d ‘ lost his FIDGET SPINNER’.

Thomas Arden- Cooper, 58, was nicked after a passenger filmed him interfering with himself and then posted the evidence online.

Footage shows Arden- Cooper furiously pulling his pud, then spurting his dirty nut gravy over a female passenger’s shopping bag.

The video clip became an internet hit, shared several thousand times.

And Arden- Cooper was soon recognised by a former work colleague.

When he was arrested at his home in Splint, Cumbria, the ex- postman claimed to have Attention Deficit Disorder and told cops he normally carried a trendy fidget spinner to keep his hands occupied. GADGET CRAZE: A fidget spinner

Arden- Cooper said he’d “absent- mindedly” opened his flies and then started to masturbate.

He claimed only to have realised what he was doing as he “neared the vinegar stroke” and that “there was no point stopping”.

But magistrates heard Arden- Cooper had 13 previous convictions for public indecency, gross indecency, indecent exposure and an offence involving a goat that can’t be described in a family newspaper.

The case was adjourned until July 12 for reports. ‘ NO POINT STOPPING’: Bus wanker Arden-Cooper