Vile creep is arrested for public sex at busy Penrith Plaza shopping centre – before returning to do the unthinkable
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A serial creep’s shocking catalog of vile sex crimes has been revealed after he was caught on CCTV having sex in a major shopping centre.
Joshua Gardner, 38, from Hazelbrook in the Blue Mountains, was arrested on November 26 for a series of sex crimes in Penrith Westfield, western Sydney.
According to police records obtained by Daily Mail Australia, Gardner and a mystery woman initially undressed to have sex near the southern doorway of the complex on November 20.
While still completely naked, the couple walked to a nearby garden bed, where they began having sex again.
The scandalous act – captured on security footage – lasted 30 minutes before the pair got dressed again and fled the scene.
Police arrested Gardner six days later at 7am on November 26 and charged him with willful and obscene exposure and offensive conduct.
But less than an hour after he was granted bail, Gardner returned to the mall and began masturbating openly.
According to police records, Gardner was released at 10:20 a.m. and was back in Westfield by 11 a.m., where he lay down in a smoking area near one of the exits.
Joshua Gardner, 38, (pictured) has been jailed after he was caught having sex at the entrance of a Westfield
The amorous incident took place in November at Penrith Plaza (pictured).
Under his strict bail conditions, he was banned from entering the Penrith Local Government Area unless he attended court, saw a lawyer or received medical attention.
But Gardner immediately returned to the busy shopping center and sat outside on the sidewalk, masturbating, with his pants pulled down, ogling women as they walked by.
He eventually pulled up his pants and left the scene, but returned to the same smoking area at 2 p.m., where he was located by police officers and arrested.
According to police records, Gardner denied he was masturbating, but then began touching himself again while sitting in the back of the paddy wagon.
Once back at the police station, he was also observed playing with himself in his cell with his hands down his pants.
Gardner appeared in Penrith District Court on December 10, where prosecutors noted he had a ‘long history with the police’.
He has previously been charged 69 times for property crimes, trespassing, drugs, obscene exposure and multiple bail violations.
Gardner also has 11 warrants out for his arrest and committed a series of bizarre burglaries at the mall the night before he was arrested, prosecutors said.
Gardner went to the Flight Center in Penrith Westfield at 9.06pm on November 25 and climbed over a 2m high security fence blocking the entrance, according to facts presented to the court.
Pictured: One of the southern entrances to the Penrith Westfield complex
Gardner also admitted to breaking into the Flight Center store the night before his arrest
He also jumped over the counter to gain access to the Donut King store (pictured)
At the time, the main doors of the center were still open, but many shops were closed.
Once he got to the travel store, he hung around for a while before climbing back over the fence.
He then jumped over the counter at the nearby Donut King and then simply stood behind the counter, according to police records.
He performed the same sequence of actions twice before leaving the mall a short time later.
Two weeks before that incident, on Nov. 16, he also broke into the center’s Boost Juice store and went behind the counter, police records show.
The court heard Gardner is currently homeless and has been sleeping in a makeshift tent in Triangle Park, across the road from the Westfield.
The prosecutor argued that Gardner will not comply with bail conditions and “continues to commit crimes within the community,” and “has no respect for the norms accepted by the general public.”
Although the sexual intercourse incident occurred late at night, the prosecutor noted that the area where it occurred “is open to and used by the public and workers of Westfield.”
Pictured: Triangle Park, across the street from Penrith Plaza, where Gardner lived in a tent
Gardner pleaded guilty to five felonies relating to the sex incident, public masturbation and burglary.
Magistrate Gregory Moore fined Gardner $400 for sex outside the mall and convicted him without penalty on three charges of entering restricted premises without a lawful excuse.
For masturbating in public, magistrate Moore sentenced Gardner to fourteen days in prison. He was released from prison on December 20.
Police have not been able to identify Gardner’s sexual partner and no charges have been filed against her.