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Roxy Jacenko publicly shames female jogger who keeps pooing outside her office

Roxy Jacenko publicly called on Australia to help identify a jogger who keeps taking dumps outside her office. Now she’s closing in.

Roxy Jacenko publicly shames "poo jogger"

Celebrity publicist Roxy Jacenko exposed an early morning jogger who she says has repeatedly defecated on the street outside her Sydney office — and now she’s closing in on discovering her identity.

The Sweaty Betty founder posted a series of now-deleted videos to her Instagram on Monday night, showing a woman appearing to relieve herself on the street earlier that morning and last Thursday.

She asked her 247,000 followers: “Do you know who this person is?”

Now she’s told news.com.au she’s very close to discovering who the alleged culprit is.

“We have been sent a number of leads to the identity of the ‘poopetrator’, these will be provided to the local police who are investigating this criminal act,” Jacenko said.

One of the clips shared on the celebrity publicist’s social media show an incident, captured by CCTV camera on October 10 just after 6.30am, where a blonde woman stops between two parked cars on Watson Street in the inner-eastern suburb of Paddington.

Dressed in a pink top and black leggings, she drops her pants and crouches down, holding her phone between her teeth as she does so.

A second video, captured just after 6am on October 14, shows the woman jogging down the street on her way to commit the latest unpleasant public act.

Jacenko told news.com.au the woman’s disgusting deposits have been multiple times a week for the past four weeks.

CCTV shows the woman crouching down between two parked cars to poop.
CCTV shows the woman crouching down between two parked cars to poop.

“The whole street has been wondering what is going on,” Jacenko said.

“Today was the most recent (poo) so it was time to look at the cameras. We thought it must be a homeless person who had no other choice. You can only imagine our horror that it was a nimble young blonde on her regular jog of a morning.”

The cameras show the poo jogger has struck on several occasions, always between the hours of 6am and 6.40am Jacenko said — not just under the cover of darkness but also as dawn breaks.

But while Jacenko has been the target of graffiti attacks in the past, she told news.com.au she doesn’t believe this is a similar type of incident.

“I don’t think she’s targeting me,” Jacenko said. “She just appears to get a kick out of the location. With cameras on every angle of my headquarters this appears to heighten the desire as you would need to have your eyes closed to miss the fact you are being filmed.”

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The woman striking again this morning.
The woman striking again this morning.
The videos have since been deleted.
The videos have since been deleted.

Do you know the woman’s identity? Email rebekah.scanlan@news.com.au

“The street is lined with magnificent historic terraces and adjacent to the Paddington Public School,” Jacenko added.

“Dog owners need to pick up their pooches’ poop. What is the world coming to when we have to hose down human faeces to enter our premises and for our neighbours to enter their properties?”

Within an hour, her Instagram posts had attracted thousands of comments.

The perpetrator’s face is fairly clear in one video, and Jacenko said it’s “inevitable” she will be identified.

“And rightly so,” she said.

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Roxy Jacenko's CCTV vision of a woman who she says has been pooping outside her office for weeks.
Roxy Jacenko's CCTV vision of a woman who she says has been pooping outside her office for weeks.

Police are also investigating the repeat poo dumpings, with Jacenko saying her neighbours informed the local authorities.

“They have had to walk through human faeces to enter their homes, it’s disgusting,” she said. “Now with the footage I am certain this should be much easier to bring criminal charges.”

Despite the clear shock over the incidents, Jacenko said she’s not trying to “embarrass” the jogger — she just wants it to stop.

“Why should my team need to walk through human faeces to get to their place of work, we pride ourselves on having facilities and a space that’s beautiful and well maintained, to have to be fronted by this on walking into work is simply revolting,” Jacenko said.

“Even worse, the kids exposed to this who are simply playing outside their homes or walking to school at the Paddington public which is next door.”

This isn’t 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.

The infamous Brisbane ‘poo jogger’ who was defecating outside a unit block for a year. Picture: Supplied
The infamous Brisbane ‘poo jogger’ who was defecating outside a unit block for a year. Picture: Supplied
Poo jogger Andrew Douglas Macintosh pictured at his home in Brisbane.
Poo jogger Andrew Douglas Macintosh pictured at his home in Brisbane.

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.

Since discovering a human was behind the poo in her street, Jacenko said she has done research on the bizarre trend of public pooping.

“This isn’t a person with irritable bowel syndrome, this is a person who’s getting off on it!” she told The Kylie and Jackie O Show this morning.

Jacenko said her neighbours have spoken to police about the incidents and she’s willing to provide the footage to assist an investigation.

A NSW Police spokesman said a formal investigation has commenced.

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