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• Author: Thomas Gradgrind
• Tags: Aged 50-59, Aged 60-69, Alcohol, Autogynephilia, Blamed alcohol, Child victim, Convicted 2017, Convicted 2019, Convicted 2023, Convicted 2024, Cross dresser, Crossdressing while offending, Female victim, Fetish, Military/Police/Prison officer, Multiple victims, Offended 2017, Offended 2019, Offended 2023, Offended 2024, Offended in car, Paul Stanton, PTSD, Public masturbation, Transvestite, Wales, Window/roof nudity/masturbation, Women's/child's underwear

Paul/Paula Stanton, a violent male transvestite, was convicted at Newport Crown Court in March 2024 of outraging public decency. He was jailed for 6 months and the judge also activated an additional six months imprisonment of a suspended sentence for a previous similar offence. He must register as a sex offender for 10 years.

Stanton, a 60 year old army veteran and serial sex offender from Barry in Wales, had repeatedly masturbated in his flat window while wearing a black bra and white knickers under his dressing gown as women walked past – i.e with the intent of being seen by them for his sexual gratification. The court heard that one of the complainants managed to record the defendant from the waist up and that she had then “found a note on her car that read as follows, ‘Please keep looking up at the flats. Paula wants to show you all her lingerie, it turns her on, so please tell her what you think. Thanks, Paula.” Stanton reportedly blamed PTSD and alcohol abuse.

In March 2023, Stanton was convicted at Cardiff Magistrates Court of a very similar offence – namely that he intentionally exposed his genitals at a woman and masturbated at her while in his car and following her – she was, unsurprisingly, left terrified. She described him as wearing women’s underwear and staring and grinning at her. She was forced to hide in a shop but Stanton then continued to follow her, and alighted from the car, pulled up his top and continued to masturbate at her. Unbelievably, he received a suspended prison sentence of six months after the judge decided that because he had not spoken to the victim, he hadn’t actually threatened her.

The court heard how Stanton has 10 previous convictions for 16 offences and was previously convicted of outraging public decency in 2019 which involved indecently exposing himself to two young girls while wearing female underwear in a Caernarfon playground. He was apparently convicted of “an almost identical offence” in 2017.

See here for further examples of trans-identified males who have masturbated at their victims from windows and here for more examples of trans-identified male offenders with a military background.

This tag collates over 70 trans-identified males whose sexual offending has involved women’s/children’s underwear.

Image credit: South Wales Police via Barry & District News

Media reports

Barry & District News https://www.barryanddistrictnews.co.uk/news/24491322.barry-man-bra-knickers-touched-flat-window/ archive

Wales Online https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/falklands-war-veteran-performed-sex-29657921 archive

Wales Online https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/smiling-ex-soldier-performs-solo-26934023 archive

Penarth Times https://www.penarthtimes.co.uk/news/23408673.barry-man-masturbated-intent-someone-seeing/ archive