A SERIAL flasher who claims he started exposing himself after a brain injury has admitted his latest perverted crime.

Appearing before Swindon Crown Court, Shane Rees pleaded guilty to exposing his privates on January 30 last year.

Rees, 44, is understood to have exposed himself on Curtis Street, in Swindon town centre, where he lives.

Sarah Jenkins, defending, asked for the case to be adjourned and a pre-sentence report ordered, telling Recorder Noel Casey her client was subject to a suspended sentence for similar offences when he dropped his pants last January.

“The position is largely the same as it was at that stage in the sense that the head injury is something that is irreversible,” she said.

“He had been suffering from particularly troublesome headaches and had been self-medicating with alcohol and it’s against that background that this offence was committed.”

Rees, who has 13 previous exposure offences on his record, was said to have kept his nose clean since being arrested last year.

Recorder Casey bailed the man to return to the crown court for sentence on Wednesday, March 11.

In 2017, Gloucester Crown Court heard the Swindon-based pervert had been spotted by two young women performing a sex act on himself while he was sat in his car.

Prosecutor Caighli Taylor said: “He had his left knee raised up, his genitals exposed and he was masturbating.

"He had his passenger window lowered. They walked on, and then noticed him driving past them as they left. They say he was smirking.

“Later a woman with her two-year-old daughter saw him park up near a children’s play area.

"There were three girls aged about ten. She walked over and saw he had his left leg stretched out, he was masturbating.

“Children from the play area were heard to say they had seen him masturbate. A member of the public got his number plate and that led to his arrest.”

Judge Jamie Tabor QC said he accepted that Rees’ unpleasant behaviour was the result of brain damage and that the best course would be for him to be helped to understand and control his behaviour in future.

“Frontal lobe injury is very destructive because the frontal lobe controls how you behave and react. It also has a lot to do with temper and temper management and things of that nature,” the judge said.

On that occasion the judge sentenced him to six months jail suspended for two years and placed him under supervision with a condition to attend 25 days of rehabilitation activities.