A MAN has been jailed for exposing himself to two girls in Ellesmere Port.

Andrew Bradshaw, 44, of Hoole Way, Chester, was sentenced to 10 months at  Chester Crown Court on Friday.

He pleaded guilty to two counts  of intentionally exposing his genitals  during separate incidents in   Ellesmere Port on August 28 last year.

During the first incident, at 4.45pm, two 13-year-old girls were playing near their home when they noticed a small, light-coloured Ford Fiesta van parked close to where they were sitting, with both the driver and passenger windows down.

Both girls felt uncomfortable and decided to leave the location – but both saw inside the vehicle as they walked past and saw Bradshaw performing a sex act.

A second incident happened just short of an hour later, at 5.40pm, when two  girls, aged nine and 11, were playing in their garden and saw a small, light-coloured van parked  four to five feet away.

The van drove off when the mother of one of the girls turned up in a car, but returned to the same spot a short time later.

The girls could see into the vehicle and again spotted the defendant performing a sex act.

A police investigation identified Bradshaw as a suspect and a search warrant was executed at his home address. He was later picked out by two of the witnesses.

Rachel Shenton, defending, said Bradshaw should be given credit for his guilty plea.

Judge Elgan Edwards, Recorder of Chester, who imposed a five-month sentence for each offence, said: “You obviously have a problem and it’s a problem you are going to have to cope with. You cannot behave in this way. It’s not acceptable.”

Judge Edwards made a sexual offences prevention order and disqualified Bradshaw, who has a 15-year-old daughter,  from working with children.

He is already on the Sex Offenders Register for life.

In 2004, Bradshaw was jailed for seven years for indecently assaulting females in Chester and Wirral. His last conviction was on June 8, 2012, for possession of extreme pornography involving bestiality.