Mick Hartley

Meanwhile, in Wales:

A transgender man dipped his prosthetic penis into a pub drinker’s pint, a court has heard.

Jesse Hawthorne, 30, was asked to leave the pub after fellow drinkers took offence over the prank, but he subsequently smashed a bottle by throwing it at a one-armed bandit machine.

Hawthorne was later arrested for criminal damage over the incident at the Cwtch bar in Caerphilly, south Wales.

Prosecutor Miquelle Groves said that the pub had been “relatively quiet but there were customers around” when Hawthorne entered the seating area and “exposed a prosthetic penis”.

“The defendant placed the false genitalia in somebody’s drink,” she added.

“CCTV showed there was an element of distress caused to some customers and he was asked to leave the premises. The defendant became very aggressive and he had a glass bottle which he threw towards the bandit, completely smashing its screen to pieces.”

Hawthorne, who works as a handyman but is currently claiming benefits, pleaded guilty to criminal damage and a public disorder offence in September last year.

There's some history.

In 2018 Hawthorne was jailed for two years and five months for attacking his victim, his ex-girlfriend’s new partner, with a brick and a broken beer bottle after turning up drunk at his ex-girlfriend’s house. He had lashed out because he could not accept former girlfriend Emma Dickenson’s new relationship with army veteran Ashley Cook.

Mr Cook released a victim impact statement in which he said the attack had triggered his PTSD, having served with the armed forces in Bosnia.

Sarah Walters, Hawthorne’s defence barrister for that matter, blamed an “inappropriate amount of testosterone at the time while he was transitioning” for causing the raging hormones.

In 2015, Hawthorne was the first transgender individual to be convicted of revenge porn when he shared a sexually explicit photograph of an ex-partner on social media. 

Sounds like a nice chap.