Flasher who was laughed at over his ‘small penis’ is jailed again

Public menace Dana Mustapha was locked up for 48 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’.

He was handed restraining orders as a result of his offending, but he showed a complete disregard for them by breaching them.

Having pleaded not guilty to two counts of breaching his restraining order, the 35-year-old was convicted following a trial at Warrington Magistrates’ Court recently.

The court heard from prosecutor Simon Leong how the breaches occurred on May 30 and 31 this year.

Mustapha was prohibited from entering Rylands Street in the town centre and from contacting one of his victims – which he breached on both counts.

The order stemmed from his previous offending, details of which were given at his sentencing hearing 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 and 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 if she saw him again she would have ‘launched him’.

Dana Mustapha has been jailed again

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’.

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 on Rylands Street 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.

Mustapha was also jailed for eight weeks in April this year for breaching his restraining order by entering Rylands Street and breaching his sex offender registration requirements by not registering with the police a change of address within three days.

District judge John McGarva 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.

For his latest breaches, magistrates sentenced Mustapha, of Winmarleigh Street in the town centre, to 26 weeks in prison.

This was due to him having a ‘flagrant disregard for court orders’, the severity of the offences and the fact he was out of prison on licence at the time.