A 37-year-old man has admitted masturbating in public in St Albans.

Nicholas Roberts admitted outraging public decency by behaving in an indecent manner, namely masturbating in public in St Albans on November 21 last year.

He faced St Albans Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, April 17.

Roberts, of Cooks Mead in Bushey, was fined £515.

He was also ordered to pay victim services £51 and £85 court costs.