Gym instructor at Yate Leisure Centre convicted of 'flashing'

Greg Livingstone, 29, who was working as a brewery van driver at the time of the two offences, claimed he was just urinating when the shocked women saw him on separate occasions a week apart.

But the jury at Gloucester Crown Court today convicted him of intentionally exposing himself to an 18-year-old girl at Cerney Wick on April 29 last year and again to a 55-year-old woman at Shipton Moyne on May 6.

Judge Martin Picton ordered him to sign the sex offenders register and bailed him for a month for a pre-sentence report to be prepared.

Livingstone, of Lower Moor Road, Yate, who has qualified as a personal trainer since the offences, was told to return to court for sentence on May 12.

Prosecutor Lisa Hennessy told the jury at the start of the trial: "The age disparity of the two victims perhaps indicates he didn't really mind who he exposed himself to, provided they were female and alone."

She said that at lunchtime on April 29 the 18-year-girl was walking to work near Cerney Wick when she saw a white van parked at the side of the lane.

As she walked past it she saw Livingstone standing in front of her, less than five metres away, while he was exposing himself.

On May 6 at lunchtime a 55-year-old woman was cycling out of Shipton Moyne when a van drove past her and pulled in, said the prosecutor.

As she cycled past it, she saw Livingstone just six to eight feet away exposing himself, she said.

In evidence Mr Livingstone said he had not intended to expose himself deliberately to either woman or to cause them any distress or alarm.

He had stopped work for Wickwar Brewery at the end of June last year and was now a personal trainer, he added.

The jury heard character references from four people who spoke of his polite manner, hard working nature and stable family background.

Natalie Dowe of Clifton Heights, Bristol, his tutor on a gym training course last year, said he had now found himself a full time job at Yate Leisure Centre.