STOKE-ON-TRENT MAN, 26, PLEADS GUILTY TO EXPOSURE AND ASSAULT
Joseph Severn, aged 26, was involved in a police stand-off during which he displayed bizarre and offensive conduct, including being naked, covered in feces, and applying bubble bath to himself in an eight-minute chase recorded on police body cameras.
The incident began after he was seen performing a sexual act in public and running without clothes through Adderley Green in Stoke, having escaped through his ex-girlfriend’s bathroom window.
He was subsequently found crouching near a door with his genitals exposed and trying to insert a finger into his anus.
During arrest, he threw a mop bucket filled with water at officers and bit a police officer, leaving a bite injury that required antibiotics.
Severn resisted arrest and tried to climb over a fence, making sexually explicit comments in the process.
He pleaded guilty to charges of burglary, exposure, criminal damage, and assaulting emergency workers.
He was sentenced to 21 months in jail, issued a three-year restraining order, and registered as a sex offender for seven years.
The sentencing judge reminded that breaching the restraining order could lead to further court action.
Court Outcome
Conviction and Sentencing Details
Sentenced
Detected legal outcome
the process. He pleaded guilty to charges of burglary, exposure, criminal damage, and assaulting emergency workers. He was sentenced to 21 months in jail, issued a three-year restraining order, and registered as a sex offender for seven ...
Court order
seven years
He was sentenced to 21 months in jail, issued a three-year restraining order, and registered as a sex offender for seven years
Court order
The sentencing judge reminded that breaching the restraining order could lead to further court action
