Women caught performing sex act in shop doorway during school run
Sarah Crawford and Rosalind Fitzgerald had been at an all-night party and were under the influence of alcohol when they started touching each other in a shop doorway
Two women left onlookers aghast when they engaged in a sexual act in a shop doorway - as children walked to school.
Sarah Crawford and Rosalind Fitzgerald had been partying all night and were under the influence when they began fondling each other outside the store.
A court was told bystanders were shocked as the pair then participated in a sex act at 8.45am. One witness was so repulsed they phoned police, Stoke on Trent Live reports.
Crawford, 39, and Fitzgerald, 42, were subsequently arrested and charged with outraging public decency, to which they both pleaded guilty at a previous hearing.
The duo appeared in the dock at Newcastle Magistrates' Court this week for sentencing. Prosecutor Paul Anderson stated the women had been partying until the morning of December 11 last year.
Mr Anderson said: "Essentially, both parties had been to an all-night party, drinking into the early hours. They then engaged in the conduct you have heard about outside a shop at 8.45am to the disgust of passers-by
"Also, at that time of day, there would have been children going to school."
Magistrates were informed Fitzgerald, who already owes £12,000 to the courts, had several difficulties in her life and pled guilty at the first opportunity.
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Alanna Wesencraft, representing Fitzgerald from Gateshead, expressed her client's remorse: "She's incredibly disgusted in herself. She's lightly convicted and was last before the courts in 2019."
The magistrates responded by handing a 12-month community order and £120 fine.
Andy O'Hanlon, acting for Crawford of North Shields, requested a postponement to allow time for a pre-sentence report to be compiled. Magistrates consented and granted Crawford bail until the next court appearance on July 4.
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