Luke Armes, A Nuneaton Paedophile has appeared before magistrates charged for five offences including indecent exposure and assaulting a police officer. Luke Armes, 34, of Wood Street, Nuneaton, appeared at Coventry Magistrates’ Court on Monday, August 1.
Luke Armes faced two counts of indecent exposure, one count of threatening behaviour towards someone else, one count of theft and one count of assault on a police officer. They related to an incident on July 29.
The court heard Luke Armes climbed over the fence of his neighbour’s garden where he pulled down his trousers and boxers before dancing around completely naked. Luke Armes’ neighbour was left upset by his actions after he refused to leave for 10 minutes – when he did leave he stole a bag of her clothes, the court heard.
He then went to the Tesco car park in Nuneaton where he punched a man, tried to take the man’s child from a car and then attempted to take the keys from the ignition. Luke Armes then exposed himself again but to a car full of children in the car park.
Warwickshire Police were called and when they attended the scene Luke Armes headbutted an officer twice causing him an injury to his lip and forehead. When passing sentence, the judge was made aware of Luke Armes’ 105 previous convictions, four of which were assaults on an emergency worker.
Luke Armes originally pleaded not guilty to all offences but later changed his pleas after he was told he would be remanded in custody until a trial date. His lawyer told the court he has a problem with alcohol and these events were a “moment of madness”.
After pleading guilty to all five charges, he was sentenced to 34 weeks in prison and ordered to sign the sex offenders register for 10 years. Luke Armes was also ordered to pay 100 compensation to his neighbour, the children he exposed himself to and 50 to the police officer he assaulted.
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