A court has been informed that two women, Sarah Crawford and Rosalind Fitzgerald, were observed engaging in a sexual act with each other in a business entrance.
Sarah Crawford and Rosalind Fitzgerald were significantly inebriated after attending an all-night party.
They exhibited the behaviour when students passed by on their way to school.
The sexual act was observed about 8:45 AM in plain sight of the public.
An observer contacted the police after being astonished by what they witnessed.
Sarah Crawford and Rosalind Fitzgerald have now entered guilty pleas for the offence of outraging public decency.
Sarah Crawford, 39, of Bardolph Road, in North Shields, and Fitzgerald, 42, of Beacon Lough Road, in Low Fell, Gateshead, were in the dock at Newcastle Magistrates’ Court this week for sentence.
Prosecutor, Paul Anderson, said the women had been at a party until the morning of December 11 last year.
He said: “Essentially, Sarah Crawford and Rosalind Fitzgerald had been to an all-night party, drinking into the early hours.
“They Sarah Crawford and Rosalind Fitzgerald engaged in the conduct you have heard about outside a shop at 8.45am to the disgust of passers-by.
“Also, at that time of day, there would have been children going to school.”
Rosalind Fitzgerald, who already owes £12,000 to the courts, had a number of difficulties in her life and had pleaded guilty at the first opportunity, the court was told.
Defending Rosalind Fitzgerald, Alanna Wesencraft said: “She’s incredibly disgusted in herself.
“She’s lightly convicted and was last before the courts in 2019.”
Magistrates gave her a 12-month community order and fined her £120.
Andy O’Hanlon, defending Sarah Crawford, applied for an adjournment so a pre-sentence report could be prepared on his client.
Magistrates agreed and released Sarah Crawford on bail to next appear back at the same court on July 4.
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