Menace who exposed himself with ‘evil excitement’ is jailed again

Dana Mustapha was locked up for 46 weeks back in May last year for a series of disturbing incidents in Latchford and the town centre, involving threats and public indecency.

One incident saw the flasher ‘run away with hurt pride’ after the woman he flashed ridiculed him for having a penis ‘smaller than those of her dogs’ and threatened to ‘launch him’.

The 35-year-old, who is banned from all children’s play areas across Warrington, was circulated as wanted by Cheshire Police in November following his release from prison.

He was last seen in Liverpool that month and was believed to be in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, but he has since been caught and brought to justice.

Mustapha was sentenced recently at Chester Magistrates’ Court, having admitted breaching his restraining order and failing to comply with his sex offender register requirements.

The court heard from prosecutor Chris Howard how these were both imposed when he was sentenced in May 2023.

The Iraqi national, who was assisted in court by a Kurdish interpreter, was previously convicted after a trial of three counts of exposure, two of harassment and one each of threatening behaviour, assault.

Mustapha made threats to a dog walker and exposed himself to them, while he also threatened to kick the victim’s dog and cut his throat and made vile homophobic insults.

He also exposed himself to a woman whom he asked for a cigarette from on New Road in Latchford.

As she approached, he removed his penis from his trousers and started to perform a sex act on himself.

The court heard how the woman ‘burst out laughing’ and told him that both her dogs had a bigger penis than him, causing him to ‘run away with hurt pride’.

She added that is she saw him again she would have ‘launched him’.

A further incident occurred near a children’s play area in Victoria Park, where he pulled his tracksuit pants down and crouched into a squatting position as if he was ‘having a poo’.

Mustapha has been jailed again

The witness described a look of ‘evil excitement’ on the defendant’s face as he ‘reached around as if he was aiming to grab hold of what he had passed to throw it’.

Yet another exposure occurred when Mustapha loitered outside a business in the town centre over a period of months.

He would stare at the owner and customers through the window, and on one occasion he unbuttoned his jeans and exposed himself for ‘sexual thrill’.

He also urinated in the street, in full view of the business, on two occasions, with urine going on the window and brickwork.

While being jailed, he attempted to barter a lower sentence with magistrates on one of the charges and was heard saying: “What have I done to deserve 48 weeks?”

In addition, Mustapha was made to sign the sex offender registration for 10 years, was handed a four-year criminal behaviour order and made the subject of restraining orders.

This is designed to restrict his ability to commit further offences, and he is banned from entering Victoria Park and entering or loitering at any children’s play area in Warrington.

The defendant is also prohibited from contacting any female in an open public space in Warrington, except any public building or premises, retail premises, sports stadia or licenced premises.

He was hauled back before the courts recently for breaching his restraining order by entering Rylands Street in Orford on April 6.

Mustapha, now of Poachers Lane in Latchford, also failed to comply with his sex offender register requirements that same day by not registering with the police a change of address within three days.

District judge John McGarva remarked that he could only pass a custodial sentence as the offences were committed shortly after his release from custody.

He also highlighted the defendant’s bad ‘body language and attitude’ in court, leading to a belief that he was ‘unlikely to co-operate’ with anything other than jail.

Mustapha was sentenced to eight weeks immediate imprisonment.