Couple had ‘revenge sex’ on neighbour’s bollard after row over parking spot
A man who had sex with his wife over a bollard in a bizarre act of revenge on his neighbour was today ordered to pay her compensation for the distress he caused.
Lee McConnell fell out with pensioner Wendie Bryant, 68, after she erected the metal post to stop him parking his VW campervan in her space.
Tensions between the two households rose before McConnell, 28, made the extraordinary move to shock Mrs Bryant and husband Colin one night last October.
CCTV footage shows McConnell emerging from his house wearing nothing but a pair of flip-flops.
He and his girlfriend Dani then had sex up against the downpipe on the outside wall of their home before McConnell walked across to Mrs Bryant’s parking space.
McConnell then performed a sex act before beckoning his wife over to join him, and the two had sex over the 2ft bollard.
The lewd act went on for around three minutes before they went back indoors.
They were heard and seen by shocked residents living in the otherwise quiet cul-de-sac in Blandford, Dorset, but Mrs Bryant was oblivious to the incident until a neighbour told her the next day.
After looking back through her CCTV footage and seeing the couple, she became so shocked by what she saw she had to go to the doctors to get medication to deal with her anxiety.
She then called the police, who arrested McConnell for indecent exposure.
He admitted the charge during a previous appearance at Weymouth Magistrates’ Court, and was today ordered to pay his neighbour £250 for the distress she had been put through.
The couple were so ashamed by the lewd act they have put their semi-detached house on the market.
The McConnells moved to Meadow View in Blandford over two years ago, but problems arose when Lee started to park his VW Transporter campervan in Mrs Bryant’s designated parking space.
The pensioner often parked on the road and left the space empty as her large car made it difficult for another neighbour to get out of her space.
Siobhan Oxley, prosecuting, said: ‘The victim and the defendant are neighbours and there is a strained relationship.
‘Mrs Bryant has an allocated parking space outside the defendant’s house.
‘On September 23, she noticed the defendant had parked his VW Campervan on the parking space she lets her neighbour have use of.
‘She asked the partner of the defendant if she could pass on the message not to do it again.
‘That day, the defendant knocked on her door and accused her of upsetting his newborn baby.
‘This prompted her to buy a drop parking bollard at a cost of £72 to put on her parking space.
‘Between October 6-10, there was damage to the bollard.
‘It prompted Mrs Bryant to install a CCTV camera which covers her parking space.
‘On October 27, at 8am an upset neighbour told Mrs Bryant she witnessed the defendant and his partner having sex outside the night before.
‘She checked the CCTV footage which showed at 11.11pm the defendant was standing in the parking space completely naked other than a pair of flip flops and he appeared to be talking to someone else.
‘Mrs Bryant then sees the partner of the defendant come out and she kisses the defendant and they then engage in sex behind the bollard.
‘It caused Mrs Bryant considerable distress and she was prescribed medication to deal with the anxiety.’
Simon Lacey, mitigating, said it was a ‘one off’ offence and the defendant was planning to move away from the cul de sac as the neighbours had shunned them.
He said: ‘It is a one off offence and the defendant has not spoken to Mrs Bryant since.
‘It is difficult for them to live there as the neighbours are not happy and they have decided to move in the near future.’
McConnell, who has one previous conviction for a driving offence, was given an 18 month community order, ordered to do 150 hours unpaid work, and told to pay £250 compensation to Mrs Bryant, £85 costs and a £114 victim surcharge.
Afterwards Mrs Bryant said she ‘could not understand’ what her neighbours did that night and that she has since received a letter of apology from Mrs McConnell.
She said: ‘I just don’t understand what he did that night. How the hell did it get to this?’
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