Police investigation into ‘Paddington pooper’ continues

Police are still hunting the mystery young blonde poo jogger who’s gone into hiding after she was caught defecating on a Sydney street.

Police are still trying to track down the mystery poo jogger who was exposed after she defecated in a Sydney street multiples times.

Celebrity publicist Roxy Jacenko outed the “nimble blonde” on Instagram last Monday and more than a week later, police have had no luck tracking her down.

“No charges have been laid and the investigation is ongoing,” a spokeswoman told news.com.au today.

That’s despite people claiming to know her telling the Shameless podcast “she isn’t doing well”.

Last week A Current Affair host Tracy Grimshaw also said the program had been told the woman had deleted all of her social media accounts because she didn’t want her activewear to be recognised.

The woman was wearing a bright pink jacket in one of the clips caught on Jacenko’s CCTV cameras outside her Sweaty Betty office in Paddington.

Jacenko told news.com.au now that the pooing had stopped she no longer wanted to comment.

But she’s come under fire for her handling of the situation, after she published a series of now deleted videos asking her followers to help find the woman.

The blonde poo jogger hasn’t been found.

Courier-Mail journalist Frances Whiting wrote she found Jacenko sharing the vision “more disturbing” than the woman’s act, and said it was “a public stoning of sorts”.

“A considered act of finger pointing to make someone bow their heads in mortification, and very possibly never leave their home again,” Whiting wrote in a column on Tuesday.

“To me, there is something clearly very wrong with the person in question, something clearly very wrong in current circumstance that has resulted in this behaviour.

“And I would further suggest that she needs help, not harassment.”

The woman’s deposits had been left multiple times.

Her comments come after Shameless hosts Zara McDonald and Michelle Andrews said Jacenko’s behaviour was “grosser” than pooing in public.

The hosts said they had listeners contact them claiming to know the mystery woman’s identity.

“We actually had people reach out to us … and they said ‘I actually know this woman and she’s not doing well’. And there is so much more backstory to this footage that you cannot communicate on social media, and if people knew what was going on in this woman’s life they would not be behaving in this way’, which made me feel a little bit sick.”

The pair also weighed in on Jacenko’s publicity stunt on Friday when she posted a video sponsored by fibre supplement brand Metamucil which she “dedicated to our Paddington Poopinator” as an item “that no bathroom should go without”.

The infamous Brisbane ‘poo jogger’ who was defecating outside a unit block for a year. Picture: Supplied

It’s not the first case to emerge of a public pooper in suburban streets.

In mid-2018, fed-up residents of a unit block in Greenslopes in Brisbane banded together to orchestrate a sting operation to unmask their own poo jogger.

It led to the arrest of corporate executive Andrew Macintosh, 64, who had defecated outside the property on at least 30 times in the space of 12 months.

A night vision camera was set up, which produced a now-iconic image of Macintosh bent over doing his business.

Just months later, a blonde woman was caught on security camera pooing outside a bottle shop in Pyrmont in Sydney, with reports she had been leaving a trail of ‘destruction’ throughout the suburb for weeks.

Earlier this year, CCTV footage captured the moment an apparently disgruntled man left a messy surprise outside a builder’s office at a controversial Wollongong development.

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