AN EX-SOLDIER touched himself sexually in his flat window while wearing a black bra and white knickers under his dressing gown as women walked past.

Paul Stanton said it turned him and he left a “sinister” handwritten note under one victim’s car windscreen asking her to keep looking at him.

The 60-year-old serial sex offender from Barry committed the offences while the subject of suspended prison sentence.

He told the police he had done so after “drinking 40 cans”.

That was for exposure last year for performing a solo sex act while he was driving next to woman in the town.

Rose Glanville, prosecuting told Newport Crown Court that Stanton’s latest offences took place two months ago.

“The first was committed on June 19 when the defendant was at his bedroom window in a block of flats,” she said.

“A woman could see that he was wearing shorts and was touching and rubbing his crotch over the shorts.

“He then pulled them down, but she looked away and drove off before she saw what was underneath.”

She continued: “The following day on June 20, the defendant was in the same window wearing an open dressing gown, wearing a black bra and white briefs or a thong.

“He was looking and watching two women who were walking their dogs whilst rubbing his groin over the white underwear.

“One of the complainants managed to record the defendant from the waist up.

“She found a note on her car that read as follows, ‘Please keep looking up at the flats. Paula wants to show you all her lingerie, it turns her on, so please tell her what you think. Thanks, Paula.”

One of the complainant’s wrote: “The whole incident has left me feeling disturbed and wondering what effect this might have had on young children if they had seen it.

“It makes me feel sick.”

Stanton pleaded guilty to two counts of committing an act outraging public decency.

The court heard how the defendant has 10 previous convictions for 16 offences and was convicted of outraging public decency in 2019 which involved children in a playground.

Matthew Comer representing him said: “Mr Stanton spent six years in the army and he saw a number of his fellow soldiers being killed in the Falkland Islands conflict and he says he's had post-traumatic stress disorder in some degrees.”

His barrister added: “When he's released, he's going to remain abstinent from alcohol and if he's abstinent from alcohol, then he believes he can remain offence free.”

Judge Daniel Williams told the defendant: “One of your victims found a sinister handwritten note from you asking her to look up at your flat because Paula, as you were referring to yourself, wanted to show her lingerie.”

Stanton was jailed for 12 months and has to register as a sex offender for 10 years.