Matthew Bouchereau: Kerb-crawling creep put on sex register
Psychedelic perv: A depraved Narre Warren druggie stalked a woman, driving his car with one hand while performing a sex act with the other.
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A doped-up driver performed a sex act while watching a woman as he cruised down the street, a court has heard.
Matthew Bouchereau was high on hallucinogenics when he followed a female pedestrian along a service road, stopping next to her several times while conducting a creepy act in his car.
The Narre Warren 32-year-old printer was also involved in a police pursuit when drug-affected after taking ice and cannabis.
Bouchereau pleaded guilty to directing sexual activity and a series of driving-related charges at the Frankston Magistrates’ Court on Monday.
The court heard at round lunchtime on October 18 last year he slowed alongside a woman as she walked down a service lane in Hallam.
As she strolled along, he cruised up alongside her and stopped.
He did this several more times until the woman, fearful she was about to be attacked, looked at the car and saw Bouchereau “with his penis exposed” and “motioning his hand up and down”.
She ran off and called police, giving them the car’s rego.
When officers later attended his home he denied performing the sex act, saying he couldn’t recall much about the incident due to his intense drug use.
At 4am on March 21 this year Bouchereau was driving in Hampton Park when he was pulled over for having an unregistered vehicle.
After stopping momentarily he then raced away, swerving into a bike lane before disappearing from officers’ view.
Forty minutes later he was spotted in Narre Warren and chased again, but this time he crashed.
He tried to flee on foot but the police K9 unit found him hiding behind a bush in a front yard.
He told them he was lost and felt “fuzzy” and “panicked” and admitted consuming ice, cannabis and magic mushrooms.
The court heard Bouchereau also has a sex offence prior for committing indecent exposure in a park.
Defence lawyer Maddie Carroll said neither of his sexual crimes involved direct contact with another person, and he was “heavily intoxicated by drugs” at the time.
She said this was Bouchereau’s first time in custody and he would benefit from a therapeutic order when released.
Magistrate Greg Connellan said his sexual behaviour was worrying, especially in combination with his severe drug use, which he downplayed when being assessed by corrections.
“He moved his car several times to place himself in a position where a passing woman would see him,” Mr Connellan said.
“(In his assessment report) he has failed to come to grips with what he did.”
Bouchereau was jailed for six months, minus 47 days already served, and must do a 24-month community corrections order with drug, alcohol and mental health counselling.
He was also disqualified from driving for 16 months and placed on the sex offenders register for eight years.
