Party Hook-Up Arrest A Real Blow

Court In Act: Gallagher & Burrows

An amorous couple, who hooked-up at a boozy house party, were caught engaging in a sex act outside a nearby school by shocked passers-by at 8am on a Tuesday morning.

Three witnesses spotted the male standing with his back to a willow tree, with his female companion on her knees in front of him and called the police.

Painter and decorator Thomas Burrows, 44, and hairdresser Lauren Gallagher, 34, both pleaded guilty to outraging public decency outside Graveney School, Welham Road, Tooting on August 8.

Wimbledon Magistrates Court heard yesterday the couple got together at 7am at the Bank Holiday party and had been drinking heavily all night.

Burrows, of Smallwood Road, Tooting is currently off work with a slipped disc and Gallagher, of Ipswich Road, Tooting has been a local hair stylist for seventeen years.

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He was fined £80 and Gallagher £190. Both were each ordered to pay £80 costs and a £30 victim surcharge.

Their lawyer Mr. Arif, who refused to give his full name, told the court: “Both are extremely ashamed and deeply sorrowful and both have lost their good character.

“That loss of good character in itself is punishment enough for both of them.

“Both are responsible adults, but acted irresponsibly on this occasion.

“They are friends and met in the pub and they had been drinking and went to a house party.

“They met at 7am and were heavily drunk an unaware of their surroundings and the offence and that three members of the public had seen them.

Prosecutor Miss Jessica Gill said: “They were seen by members of the public engaging in oral sex outside Graveney School.”

Magistrate Mrs M Marriott told them: ‘There are aggravating features, firstly the location being near the school, the time and the presence of others.

“This could have been a lot worse if the children had been around.”