Doyalson: Corrective Services guard Matthew Paul Johnson exposed penis, grabbed woman’s bum in club

A married prison guard grabbed a woman on the bum and told her she had a “nice a--” before exposing himself in a beer garden teeming with people – in the hours after he attended a funeral.

Johnson was at the Doyalson Wyee RSL when he got his little Johnson out in the beer garden and started swinging it around. (File image)

Correctional officer Matthew Paul Johnson pulled out his penis in a popular Central Coast beer garden and started “swinging it around in a circular motion” after grabbing a woman on the bum and telling her she had a “nice arse”, a court has heard.

The 37-year-old from Blue Haven faced Wyong Local Court on Wednesday where he pleaded guilty to sexually touching a woman and exposing himself – but applied to have the charges dismissed under mental health provisions.

Johnson’s lawyer lodged a Section 14 mental health application but it was adjourned to Sydney after the magistrate found Johnson had worked at the local court previously and knew people who still worked there.

An agreed set of facts states Johnson had been at a funeral in August 2023 before attending a wake at the Doyalson Wyee RSL.

He was drinking beer and socialising with other funeral guests when he approached a female acquaintance at the bar and “put his nose and face into the right shoulder of the victim”.

Johnson was a correctional officer who has been suspended on full pay since December 2023. (file picture: Toby Zerna)

“You smell so f--king good, why do you smell so good?” Johnson asked the woman.

“The victim said to the accused ‘What the f..k are you doing’. The victim stepped away from the accused and put her left hand up in a stopping motion.”

Johnson appeared at Wyong Local Court on Wednesday. (AAP Image/Sue Graham)

A short time later Johnson was in the smoking area of the beer garden when he “approached the victim and grabbed the victim on the buttocks”.

“As he did so he said, ‘You have a nice arse’,” the facts state.

“The victim told the accused to ‘f--k off’. When she did this the accused let go of her and walked away.”

Later in the evening Johnson, the victim and others were in the same area of the beer garden when Johnson exposed himself.

Johnson was captured on the club’s CCTV swinging his penis around in a circular motion. Picture: Facebook/Doyalson Wyee RSL Club

“The accused removed his penis from his pants and while holding it in his right hand starts to swing his penis around in an anti-clockwise direction,” the facts state.

“Both the victim and the other female witness described the action as a circular motion.”

The incident was captured on CCTV.

Johnson, another man and the victim left in an Uber about an hour later, stopping at a bottle shop on the way to pick up more beer.

The facts state almost four months later in December, 2023, Johnson was summoned to Wyong Police Station where he was arrested and interviewed.

He denied sexually touching the woman.

“The accused did admit to removing his penis from his pants and swinging it around but claimed the only person who could have seen it was [another man],” the facts state.

“When shown the footage he agreed that both [the victim] and [the other man] would have seen it but no one else did so did not believe there was any problem with his behaviour.”

The facts state Johnson has been suspended on full pay since his arrest more than a year ago as he awaits the outcome of his legal proceedings.

Magistrate Justin Peach adjourned the mental health application to the Downing Centre Local Court on March 18.