AN Amazon delivery driver has been found guilty of exposing his penis to women after dropping off their parcels.
Luke Yates, 23, of Sleaford, Lincs, was charged with three counts of exposure after flashing his penis to women he had dropped parcels off for.
On November 16 and twice on January 11, 2022, at addresses across Oxford, Yates had asked to use the toilets at resident's home before indecently exposing himself.
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His Amazon delivery van, which is tracked, showed the vehicle being parked at the Oxfordshire addresses at the time of the offences and the parcels were marked as delivered.
Yates has denied the offences and stood trial at Oxford Crown Court.
However, a jury found him guilty of all three counts after the short proceedings earlier this week. He is now due to be sentenced at the same court in six to eight weeks.
During the trial, it was heard that on November 16, 2022, Yates had dropped off a parcel at a residents home for elderly people.
The victim, who passed away in January this year, said that the delivery driver had asked if they could use her toilet.
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She advised they use the communal toilet downstairs but the driver stated he was desperate.
“I heard him call out saying there was something wrong with the tap,” she said. “He then opened the door and was in full view of me with his penis in his hand.
He was smiling at me in a provocative way. I didn’t see if he was erect of not as I really didn’t want to look.
“I was very shocked about what happened.”
In January, he asked to enter a women’s home to use the toilet before asking her to look at his penis, claiming there was ‘white stuff around it’.
She said: “I was just looking at the wall. He asked me to touch it and have a look at it. [I said] no, no way.
“He got agitated and said ‘Why not, why not? You’ve been a nurse, I’ve got all this white stuff around it’.
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“He got angry and he left. I just told him no, no way I was looking at it and he got angry and agitated.”
The woman said she phoned police the next day after staying with her neighbour overnight. “I was so scared and nervous,” she said.
On the same day, he was caught ‘touching himself and making groaning noises’ after entering another woman’s house under the pretence of using the toilet and wanting a cup of tea.
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