Outrage as flashers mar Remembrance Day parade

Remembrance Day revulsion was sparked by a couple who allegedly exposed themselves from a window as a parade passed by.

Members of the public, police force, armed forces and Royal British Legion were left “disgusted” an “incensed” by the incident as the Remembrance Day parade made its way along Morrell Street, Maltby, at around 11.20am on Sunday.

Witnesses claimed that a woman came to the window and lifted her top, exposing her breasts, before a man arrived at her side and pulled down his boxer shorts.

Inspector Richard Scholey, who was near the head of Sunday’s parade, said that he was personally revolted by the alleged act.

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And outraged Karen Robinson, of Maltby, who was there with her father, a 95-year-old war veteran, added: “To think that we were out there to honour the men and women who have been killed and injured to preserve our freedom and unwittingly preserve the freedom of people like that...it makes you sick.

“I've never seen such utter disrespect.”

The alleged incident comes less than a month after Sheffield Hallam University pupil, Philip Laing (19), sparked outrage when he was photographed urinating on tributes laid at the city's war memorial in Barkers Pool.

On Sunday, around 350 people who had assembled for Maltby's Remembrance Day ceremony had already observed a two-minute silence at the town’s war memorial, off Blyth Road, and were parading back to Maltby Progressive Club, on Walters Street, when the alleged incident occurred.

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Anne Dickinson, Rotherham's chief organiser for the Royal British Legion’s Poppy Appeal, was near the front of the parade. She said: "People were incensed when they saw this couple. I have never seen anything like it."