Drunk’s £4,500 bill for statue sex attack

A DRUNKEN reveller ‘with mobility problems’ caused £20,000 worth of damage performing an obscene act on top of a statue.

Stewart Tomlinson, 45, was ordered to pay £4,500 in compensation for snapping the head off The Footie Imp, a statue sponsored for charity by Lincoln City Football Club.

The court was shown closed-circuit television footage from Lincoln centre of the jobless father-of-two twice wrapping his legs around the head of the Imp and simulating a sex act as his drunken companions watched.

The fibre-glass statue, dressed in Lincoln City’s strip, was beheaded on the second occasion. Tomlinson and his friends then kicked the broken pieces around before leaving to continue an all-day drinking binge.

Presiding magistrate David Phillips said: ‘So you have reduced mobility and a slipped disc? It’s very surprising that you managed to jump up there twice.’

The statue was part of a trail of 30 sculptures on Lincoln High Street to be auctioned to raise money for a hospice.

Prosecutor Dale Brownless told the magistrate that the total cost to organisers was ‘in excess of £20,000’.

The court heard that Tomlinson, from Grimsby, North Lincolnshire, said he had received ‘death threats’ over the incident.

He admitted criminal damage on August 29 and was ordered to pay £4,500 compensation, £95 costs and a £95 surcharge.

Tomlinson was also given a 12-month community order.