KARL WATKINS, 20, appeared at Hereford Crown Court in February 1993 on five

counts of outraging public decency: in particular, making love to pavements.

Watkins claimed it was a case of mistaken identity, but he was fingered many

times as the man found face down on the paving stones with his pants round

his ankles. One boy told of seeing Watkins's bare backside moving up and

down, while a mother said she was shocked to see a group of children gathered

round him. He also attempted to mount an underpass. How he passed the time

during his 18 month jail sentence is far from clear.

Watkins was back in court in April 1995, on charges of simulating sex with

black plastic dustbin bags in front of teenage schoolgirls. He revealed a

nine-year fetish with the plastic sacks, centred on the "feel and touch of

the bin liners". He went out at night to spend his time in rubbish piles, and

had been found in wheelie bins, and even in the back of dust-carts. His

ultimate sexual fantasy was to be in a dust-cart when the bin bags were

crushed. Convicted of outraging public decency, he was put on three years'

probation and ordered to seek psychiatric help.