JPs were forced to remand a man accused of disorderly behaviour – because he wouldn’t stop masturbating.

Mark Scott, 46, stripped off his clothes and repeatedly performed the lewd act in holding cells at Swindon Magistrates’ Court.

The homeless man, who is South African, faced a charge of behaving in a disorderly manner in Salisbury on February 5.

But he could not be brought up to enter his pleas, with the court record citing misbehaviour, refusing to engage with the duty solicitor and getting naked in the cells.

Magistrates recorded a not guilty plea and remanded him in custody until a bail hearing on February 12.