Convicted rapist caught in indecent act while watching boys play football moans: ‘I’m being tarred as a pervert’

A CONVICTED rapist on life licence for an armed robbery caught playing with himself in his car while watching young boys play football moaned to a judge: ‘I’m being tarred as a pervert – it’s not fair.’
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Jurors rejected 55-year-old Richard Barttelot’s claim he was just urinating into a bottle near a football field while the under-12s game was underway after a woman parked next to him told them she saw exactly what he was doing.

The shocked parent, who was at the game at a park in Hampshire, had told Portsmouth Crown Court his lone sex act was in ‘plain view’ to her at around midday.

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Prosecutor Martyn Booth told how parents tried to stop the defendant getting away in a ‘determined fashion’ despite him driving aggressively at them.

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Despite being found guilty of exposure and careless driving in the getaway, Barttelot moaned to the judge - who had been told the defendant was previously jailed for raping a teenager, and had been handed a life sentence for robbing a Post Office with a sawn-off shotgun.

Speaking from the secure dock, the defendant whined: ‘I got something to say to you your honour.

‘I weed in a bottle, the police had my clothes and the bottle of wee for over a year and they never checked it.

‘What this man (the prosecutor) is implying is not true.

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‘I was caught short, I wasn’t aware there was a toilet there so I peed in bottle.

‘Now I’m being tarred as a pervert - it’s not fair.’

The court heard how the defendant was jailed for life in 2001 in Shrewsbury for robbing a large amount of £10 notes from a Post Office.

After his exposure trial in November last year he was recalled under the life licence.

Sentencing, Judge Timothy Mousley QC handed Barttelot a 36-week prison sentence but added: ‘The reality is you will remain in custody.’

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Judge Mousley said there was no mitigation, adding the parent whose son was playing football was left distressed. ‘There was young boys or youths playing football on a Sunday morning and you were sitting there watching,’ he said.

Barttelot, of London Road, Cowplain, turned to his family in the public gallery after being sentenced and said: ‘Told you, I get (done) every time.’

He will only be released when the parole board allow him.

Opening the case, Mr Booth said: ‘The circumstances were that there was a game of football being played and young boys were playing football.

‘On the face of it he was watching.’

Mr Booth added: ‘He was in plain sight of her whilst this was going on.’

Barttelot must sign the sex offenders’ register for 10 years. He received no separate penalty for the driving.