A late-night prowler told police he was “buzzing” on sex-drug GHB when breaking a drainpipe as he tried to spy on a female banker through the upstairs window of her £1.4m home.
Lee Preston, 21, confessed he fantasised about leering at the 47 year-old woman when he saw her undressing in her bedroom.
Jobless Preston, of Shepherds Lane, Mill End, Rickmansworth pleaded guilty to causing £241 worth of criminal damage to the cast iron pipe in the early hours of March 29.
Prosecutor Miss Caroline Mungal told Wimbledon Magistrates Court that German-born Valerie Rademacher noticed a piece of her broken black drainpipe on her first-floor terrace at 8.30am.
She also spotted a purple hoodie in nearby bushes and a neighbour confirmed hearing noises in the early hours.
CCTV showed Preston wandering around the grounds surrounding the gated property - 24 Southside Quarter, 38 Burns Road, Battersea - in the early hours.
Police arrested Preston, who had been temporarily staying with a friend nearby after making a DNA match to the hoodie.
“He said he was high on GHB and that it made him sexual and he was buzzing off the drugs and had previously been caught masturbating in public when he took it.
“He said he climbed up because he thought it was a turn on after seeing a lady undressing and that he was high that night.
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| Midnight Climb: Southside Quarter |
“Preston told the officers he was very embarrassed and that he was sorry.”
The court heard he has previous convictions for criminal damage and public order offences.
His lawyer Miss Roz Olason told the court: “It was two or three in the morning and the lady was not up and about.
“There is no reason Mr. Preston thought there would be any benefit from climbing up the drainpipe other than he was high on drugs that do cause sexual urges.”
Preston was fined £80, with £40 costs and ordered to pay £241 compensation.
Preston was also charged with attempting to observe a person doing a private act for the purpose of obtaining sexual gratification, contrary to the Criminal Attempts Act.
This count, which did not name Valerie Rademacher, was dropped by the Crown Prosecution Service on the day of Preston’s first appearance.
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