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Credit: Jason Evans Court and crime reporter, Wales Online, 10:47, 26 Nov 2025, Updated 10:50, 26 Nov 2025
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Marc Innes used 'filthy' language and waved his penis around in a Subway shop (Image: Getty Images)
A man waved his penis around in a busy sandwich shop in Pembrokeshire, a court has heard. Marc Innes then unleashed a torrent of racial and homophobic abuse at the police officer who arrested him for his drunken takeaway display.
During the bizarre episode at the Subway in Haverfordwest the 34-year-old former tree surgeon also stole crisps and "used filthy language", his sentencing hearing at Swansea Crown Court heard on Tuesday.
During the hearing the judge told the defendant that the only person who was interested in his penis was him, and he said that by his behaviour the 34-year-old had demeaned himself.
Georgia Donohue, prosecuting, told the court that on the evening of September 19 the defendant walked into a Subway shop in Haverfordwest and ordered a sandwich.
She said Innes was noted to have glazed eyes and slurred speech and to be unsteady on his feet, and staff came to the conclusion he was under the influence of drink or drugs.
The court heard that while his sandwich was being made the defendant ate a packet of crisps, and that when staff asked him to pay for his food he held his phone against the card reader machine but nothing happened.
Several attempts were made to take payment without success and Innes then began "making a nuisance" of himself in the shop and opened and ate another packet of crisps.
Staff alerted the store manager who asked Innes to pay for his food, but the defendant responded by exposing his penis and then shaking it around "in a clockwise circular motion" while being verbally abusive and threatening and telling the boss to "suck your mum".
The court heard that Innes then tried to grab a third packet of crisps but was blocked by the manager. The defendant responded by grabbing the manager, pushing him up against a door, and then forcing his forearm into his victim's throat.
Innes then tried to punch the manager but failed. By that point the police had been called, and when officers arrived Innes was "aggressive and abusive" to the arresting officer, repeatedly using a racial slur for Chinese people and telling him to go home before hurling homophobic abuse.
Innes, of Slade Villas, Haverfordwest, had previously pleaded guilty to theft, assault by beating, exposure, and racially aggravated public disorder when he appeared in the dock for sentencing.
He has 13 previous convictions for 20 offences including thefts from shops, assaulting an emergency worker, and five public order offences - three of which are from this year.
Emily Bennett, for Innes, said the defendant attributed a large part of his offending history to his abuse of alcohol and said he knows he needs to address that issue if he is to change his behaviour.
She said her client wanted to engage with Alcoholics Anonymous and wished to apologise to the shop staff and the police officer concerned. She added that the former tree surgeon had secured work on a building site via an agency which was a "positive" in his life.
Judge Huw Rees told Innes he had used "filthy language" and demeaned himself by his behaviour on the night in question, adding that nobody was interested in the defendant's penis save for the defendant himself. He said Innes had been a "nuisance" for the people of Haverfordwest for some time.
With discounts for his guilty pleas Innes was sentenced to a nine-month community order and was made subject to a rehabilitation course and a six-month alcohol treatment requirement.
The length of the community order is such that the defendant will not be be required to register as a sex offender, with the judge saying he did not think the sex offenders notification requirement was intended for the kind of public order incident before the court.
Credit: Jason Evans Court and crime reporter, Wales Online, 10:47, 26 Nov 2025, Updated 10:50, 26 Nov 2025
Archive: https://archive.ph/wip/T59Gb
Marc Innes used 'filthy' language and waved his penis around in a Subway shop (Image: Getty Images)
A man waved his penis around in a busy sandwich shop in Pembrokeshire, a court has heard. Marc Innes then unleashed a torrent of racial and homophobic abuse at the police officer who arrested him for his drunken takeaway display.
During the bizarre episode at the Subway in Haverfordwest the 34-year-old former tree surgeon also stole crisps and "used filthy language", his sentencing hearing at Swansea Crown Court heard on Tuesday.
During the hearing the judge told the defendant that the only person who was interested in his penis was him, and he said that by his behaviour the 34-year-old had demeaned himself.
Georgia Donohue, prosecuting, told the court that on the evening of September 19 the defendant walked into a Subway shop in Haverfordwest and ordered a sandwich.
She said Innes was noted to have glazed eyes and slurred speech and to be unsteady on his feet, and staff came to the conclusion he was under the influence of drink or drugs.
The court heard that while his sandwich was being made the defendant ate a packet of crisps, and that when staff asked him to pay for his food he held his phone against the card reader machine but nothing happened.
Several attempts were made to take payment without success and Innes then began "making a nuisance" of himself in the shop and opened and ate another packet of crisps.
Staff alerted the store manager who asked Innes to pay for his food, but the defendant responded by exposing his penis and then shaking it around "in a clockwise circular motion" while being verbally abusive and threatening and telling the boss to "suck your mum".
The court heard that Innes then tried to grab a third packet of crisps but was blocked by the manager. The defendant responded by grabbing the manager, pushing him up against a door, and then forcing his forearm into his victim's throat.
Innes then tried to punch the manager but failed. By that point the police had been called, and when officers arrived Innes was "aggressive and abusive" to the arresting officer, repeatedly using a racial slur for Chinese people and telling him to go home before hurling homophobic abuse.
Innes, of Slade Villas, Haverfordwest, had previously pleaded guilty to theft, assault by beating, exposure, and racially aggravated public disorder when he appeared in the dock for sentencing.
He has 13 previous convictions for 20 offences including thefts from shops, assaulting an emergency worker, and five public order offences - three of which are from this year.
Emily Bennett, for Innes, said the defendant attributed a large part of his offending history to his abuse of alcohol and said he knows he needs to address that issue if he is to change his behaviour.
She said her client wanted to engage with Alcoholics Anonymous and wished to apologise to the shop staff and the police officer concerned. She added that the former tree surgeon had secured work on a building site via an agency which was a "positive" in his life.
Judge Huw Rees told Innes he had used "filthy language" and demeaned himself by his behaviour on the night in question, adding that nobody was interested in the defendant's penis save for the defendant himself. He said Innes had been a "nuisance" for the people of Haverfordwest for some time.
With discounts for his guilty pleas Innes was sentenced to a nine-month community order and was made subject to a rehabilitation course and a six-month alcohol treatment requirement.
The length of the community order is such that the defendant will not be be required to register as a sex offender, with the judge saying he did not think the sex offenders notification requirement was intended for the kind of public order incident before the court.
