A CONCERNED mother made a cardboard sign warning off doggers after catching two people having sex in a car outside her home.
Mother-of-three Marie Owen, 27, put the triangular sign on a lamp post at the end of Wentworth View reading: 'This is a child-friendly area, not a doggin' spot! Have respect and, by the way, smile you're on CCTV ya filthy b******s!'
Dogging is a clandestine practice involving participants having sex in cars in secluded areas while being watched by spectators. This wasn't what Marie saw but she said she was moved to make the sign after witnessing a public sex act from her first floor flat window at about 10pm.
She said: "I've got three kids aged five, three and one and I looked out of my window because I usually have it open when I'm smoking. I saw this car there with a bloke in the driver's seat and a woman in the passenger's seat.
"You could see they were messing about and then the bloke got out and went to the passenger seat. Then I could see the car wobbling. But all it takes is for one of my children to get up for a drink or something. I can't have this outside my house."
PCSO Matt Shaughnessy, of the Wombwell Safer Neighbourhood Team, said he was aware there had been dogging going on in Wombwell but had not received any reports from Wentworth View.
"We're aware of a car park in Broomhill that's used and we pay particular attention to that but you would think people would go out of the way a bit further than Wentworth View," he said.
