A WINNINGTON man who avoided jail for exposing himself to his parents’ neighbour is now behind bars after failing to show up for court-ordered unpaid work. 

Joshua Searby, of Solvay Road, admitting luring the lady into his parents’ house on October 10, 2023, while they were away on holiday.

His victim told police the 29-year-old landscape gardener asked her if she like younger men, then took out his penis with one hand and started stroking it with the other ‘as if it were a cat’.

She told him his behaviour was inappropriate, then went back to her own house, where she eventually reported the incident to the police.

Searby was interviewed and arrested at his home the following day, where officers also found cannabis, a grinder, and a bong.

He told police he’d been drinking all day before the incident and had no memory of it, but he didn’t dispute it happened.

For one charge each of indecent exposure and possessing cannabis, Searby was sentenced to an 18-month community order by Chester magistrates on Tuesday, November 28, who called his behaviour ‘grossly offensive’.

The sentence came with 140 hours unpaid work, a six-month drug rehabilitation requirement, and an order to sign the sex offenders register for five years.

However, Searby was back before Chester magistrates on Tuesday, April 2, after failing to show up for unpaid work on February 25 and March 3, without giving a reasonable excuse.

The bench revoked his community order and sentenced him to eight weeks in prison instead.

At his original sentence hearing on November 28, Selina Woodward, defending, said Searby was ‘extremely ashamed and disgusted’ by his actions, adding: “He’s frightened by the fact he can’t remember anything of the incident.

“My client has a successful landscape gardening company and has a seven-year-old son, who is his world. They see each other every weekend.”