A rowing couple ended up in the dock together after the woman dropped her pyjama trousers in front of police and urged officers to look at her naked genitals.
Charmaine Mollison was fined £100 for making the officers “uncomfortable” by flashing at them after they arrested her and partner Rossco Stern.
She was in the back of the police van when she lifted one leg and shouted at the police to have a closer look at her private parts.
Sheriff Robert More said: “I appreciate the discomfort the police would have felt. The most significant aspect of this is that the police were put to such inconvenience.”
Warned to desist
Mollison, 33, from Dundee, admitted causing fear or alarm by acting in a threatening or abusive manner on November 23 2020.
She admitted shouting and swearing and “removing her lower clothing and exposing her naked genitals to police officers while requesting they look at her”.
Stern, 29, from Dundee, admitted shouting and swearing and acting in an aggressive manner in the city’s St Ninian’s Terrace on November 22 2020. He was admonished.
Fiscal depute Carrie-Anne McKenzie told Dundee Sheriff Court: “They were in a relationship with each other. Officers attended following a report of a minor domestic argument.
“Mr Stern was taken to an alternative address. While the police were still there, Mr Stern made contact with his co-accused by mobile phone.
“She removed her pyjama bottoms and top and exposed her naked vagina. She shouted at officers to look.
“She was warned to desist, but exposed herself to officers, lifting one leg in the van to do so.
“She refused to sit down and was advised she may cause injury to herself were she to fall over. All the officers reported that she made them feel uncomfortable.”
Solicitor Ross Donnelly, defending, said that the couple had been finding life difficult during the Covid pandemic lockdown towards the end of 2020.
“They are a young couple. Tension and strains within the relationship got the better of them.”
Mr Donnelly told the court there was no sexual element to Mollison’s conduct and that she had since learned to deal with her issues in a more appropriate manner.
