M an, 74, C Aught with His Trousers Down ; Mcc Member Says He Was in Red Light District 'Listening to the Cricket' [Edition 2]

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A 74-YEAR-old man was caught with his pants down when police found him cavorting with a prostitute in his car. Michael Bishop had already been warned twice about driving around in the early hours in areas of St Paul's where prostitutes were on the streets. Yet he ignored the advice - and an Acceptable Behaviour Contact (ABC) he had signed a month before - by picking up a sex worker in Portland Square on June 5. Bristol magistrates heard that when officers pulled up alongside the ex-soldier's grey Toyota Yaris at about 3.30am, they saw a woman looking startled in his front passenger seat.

Giving evidence at Bishop's trial, PC Andrew Dino said he went to the driver's window to ask him what he was up to, noticed his shorts were "down around his thighs", and he was frantically trying to pull them back up. Meanwhile, a woman who was a known prostitute got out and walked off, wearing only a pink top and no underwear. Bishop, a member of the exclusive Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), said he was only in the area listening to the cricket and sport on the radio. But he was convicted and fined for soliciting a woman for prostitution, in a way likely to cause nuisance or annoyance to people in the neighbourhood. Prosecuting, Kirsty Allman told the court how Bishop, of Northover Road, Westbury-on-Trym, was first seen circling Portland and Brunswick Squares at 12.55am on the day of his arrest by PCs Mark Foster and Glenda Sowden.

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M an, 74, C Aught with His Trousers Down ; Mcc Member Says He Was in Red Light District 'Listening to the Cricket' [Edition 2]

They warned him that he was in a red . light district and told him if he stayed in the area he might be arrested. After le...

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