Red-faced couple grassed up by casino CCTV sex tape

A LOVED-up couple caught on CCTV sharing an intimate moment on the lawn outside Mindil Beach Casino Resort have left court with red faces and good behaviour bonds

A loved-up couple caught on CCTV sharing an intimate moment on the lawn outside Mindil Beach Casino Resort have left court with red faces and good behaviour bond. Picture: iStock

A LOVED-up couple caught on CCTV sharing an intimate moment on the lawn outside Mindil Beach Casino Resort have left court with red faces and good behaviour bonds.

The Darwin Local Court heard Tiras Escobar, 43, and Michelle Mununggurr, 39, spent the afternoon sharing a romantic drink before settling down on the grass for a quickie on March 12.

Court documents show the casino’s cameras recorded Mununggurr performing a brief sex act on Escobar lasting “approximately three seconds” near the main car park at about 5.10pm.

A short time later the pair were approached by security and asked to leave before police were called in and both were arrested for their frisky faux pas.

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Escobar and Mununggurr were each charged and later pleaded guilty to performing an act of gross indecency in a public place.

Their lawyer, Elana Scoufis, told the court her clients, who had recently been homeless, were in a long-term relationship and “love each other very much”.

Ms Scoufis argued the couple’s romp wasn’t as public as it might have been, saying “it’s not as if it was in the middle of Mitchell St on a busy day”.

“I have perhaps had the misfortune of seeing that CCTV and there is a grassy patch, it was not right outside the front entrance of the casino, there was very minimal foot traffic,” she said.

“It seems that it (only) came to the attention of anybody because security were watching the security cameras outside the casino so it’s not the case that a great number of (people) had to view this particular act.”

Judge Elisabeth Armitage disagreed, saying “it was a pretty public location” but prosecutor Bahareh Jaber did not object to Ms Scoufis’s argument a good behaviour bond would be punishment enough for the couple’s indiscretion.

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“Clearly the behaviour was entirely inappropriate to be occurring in a public place where, while there might not have been a lot of people around, it was certainly in a location where it had the potential to be viewed by anyone who was accessing that area,” Ms Armitage said.

“I accept that neither of you have behaved in any way like this that’s been brought to the attention of the police in the past and I accept that it’s unlikely that you will behave like this again in the future in a place which might be viewed by other people.”

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Ms Armitage handed both Escobar and Mununggurr good behaviour bonds and elected not to record a conviction in Mununggurr’s case due to her clean record.

The pair were also ordered to pay victims levies of $150 each.