A man who participated in a lewd sex act on a Dundee bus has been put on the sex offenders register.
Sentencing, Sheriff George Way branded Barrie Falconer, 35, of Tullideph Road, “stupid” for engaging in the “unacceptable behaviour”.
Falconer previously admitted that on June 12, while aboard a No 18 Travel Dundee bus, he committed public indecency by participating in a lewd sex act.
On Wednesday, his solicitor Jim Laverty said Falconer was “very remorseful” and “embarrassed”.
The bus had been en route from Old Glamis Road to the city centre.
Sheriff Way condemned the crime, saying children or elderly people could have been on the bus at the time.
He said: “That behaviour is unacceptable on a public bus. Don’t be so stupid again.
“There could have been kids or elderly folk on the bus, though I understand you couldn’t physically be seen from where you were.
“But this will be on your record.”
Mr Laverty said it was an isolated incident.
He said: “My client is clearly very remorseful and embarrassed by what happened on this particular day.
“It was very much an isolated and one-off incident.”
Falconer was placed on a community payback order with a supervision requirement for six months.
He was also placed on the sex offenders register for six months and put on a curfew for four months and 15 days, confining him to his address between 7pm and 7am.
Previously, Rhia Rodgers, 22, of Andersons Lane, had her not guilty plea to the same sex act charge accepted by prosecutors.
She pleaded guilty to a separate charge of stealing books from Ann Summers, Reform Street, on June 14.
Sentence on that was deferred on Rodgers until next year for her to be of good behaviour.