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INTERNATIONAL NEWS
February 09, 2010 12:38:34 PM

A man caught having sex at a Northern Territory petrol bowser was asleep until his "friend" was already sitting on top of him, a court has heard.

Lionel Mark William Spratt pleaded guilty to behaving indecently in public in Darwin Magistrates Court yesterday.

His legal aid lawyer Matthew Hubber said his client had been on drugs all day and was asleep in the passenger seat when his friend drove Spratt's troop carrier into the BP service station in September last year, the Northern Territory News reports.

Prosecutor James Tierney said the woman drove up to the bowser closest to the shop, got out of the driver's side door and got in the passenger's side and sat on Spratt.

The service station attendant could see the pair "kissing passionately", and Tierney said the attendant could hear loud moaning and the woman was "moving in ways that gave the impression the pair was having sexual intercourse".

The attendant called the police, who arrived and asked the couple to stop.

They did not, and Spratt was not arrested until 27 minutes later.

Hubber said his client had been in alcohol and drug rehabilitation since the offences.

Chief Magistrate Jenny Blokland will sentence Spratt tomorrow for this and an assault on his former partner after a supervision report has been done.

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