Former footballer Neil Shipperley has admitted to flashing and performing a sex act in front of a mum and her 16-year-old daughter, a court heard this week.
The ex-Crystal Palace, Barnsley, Brentford, Nottingham Forest, Chelsea, Southampton and Sheffield United player exposed himself from a white van as they walked along a street.
Shipperley pleaded guilty to a charge of intentionally exposing his genitals intending that someone would see them and be caused alarm or distress.
Here he is scoring the winner for Crystal Palace in the 2004 Championship playoff final against West Ham United to secure promotion to the Premier League.
Neil Shipperley decided this encounter between the Eagles and Hammers. Who was there that day? pic.twitter.com/hOV6XTxs2b
— Crystal Palace F.C. (@CPFC) October 14, 2016
Prosecutor Taranjit Rai said: “The defendant was driving along then stopped and wound down his window.
“They thought he was letting them cross the road. The victim turned around to say thank you and saw he was holding his penis and looking at her face.”
He added that Shipperley followed them in his van before stopping in Hayes and performed a sex act.
The mum and daughter went to a police station to report him, however he ended up turning himself in as they arrived.
Mr Rai added: “He apologised and admitted he had a problem.
“He said, ‘It was totally unacceptable and, for the record, I did not know she was a kid’.”
His lawyer Sarah O’Kane told Uxbridge magistrates: “He accepts that he had his penis out but was not masturbating in the usual sense of the word.”
Shipperley, who also made 7 appearances for England U21 and managed North Greenford United between 2011 and 2014, will be sentenced.
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