‘World record’ wanker ‘not a bad boy’, his mother tells court

Serial public masturbator Gary Chisholm’s mother says he’s ‘not a bad boy’ and she’s ‘absolutely, 90 per cent certain’ he has learnt his lesson, a court has heard.

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SERIAL public masturbator Gary Chisholm’s mother says he’s “not a bad boy” and she’s “absolutely, 90 per cent certain” he has learnt his lesson, a court has heard.

Chisholm returned to the Darwin Local Court on Friday after earlier pleading guilty to one count of gross indecency in a public place.

The 47-year-old has admitted to “gripping, pulling and flicking his erect penis” while watching two teenage girls at the Casuarina nudist beach in 2019.

On Friday, his lawyer Peter Maley said Chisholm should be sentenced to home detention as he was the sole carer for his terminally ill mother, Patricia, who took the stand to explain her situation.

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Mrs Chisholm said she was suffering from two different types of cancer and would be “lost” without her son, who was the only person available to look after her and drive her to appointments.

“Some days I’m OK, other days I get so weak I can’t even get off the bed because I feel like I’m going to pass out,” she said.

“When I’m not feeling well he looks after me, he sees that I’ve got things to eat and to drink.

“Gary’s there with me whenever I need him, he’s always there.”

‘World Record masturbator’ Gary Chisholm ‘can move his penis in ways most men can’t’. Picture: Glenn Campbell

Under cross examination by prosecutor Ian Rowbottom, Mrs Chisholm said while her son had “done a few things in the past” he was “not a bad boy”.

“There’s no way in the world that my son would ever go near a nude beach or any place like that or do anything like that again,” she said.

“I am absolutely, 90 per cent certain that he would never do that again because he has certainly learnt his lesson.”

Mrs Chisholm said while Gary “knows he’s done the wrong thing” he told her he “didn’t actually masturbate” on the beach and the girls “were not upset by what he had done”.

“He told me the girls had a bit of a giggle, apparently the police came over and spoke to him and he said ‘I wasn’t masturbating, go and ask the girls then’,” she said.

“I believe that it was not something that was a shocking thing to them, that’s the way I was told.”

Mr Rowbottom said Chisholm was a recidivist who maintained his behaviour was only “a bit naughty” and “the public would be outraged” if he got home detention.

“This man needs to be told you’re not just a naughty boy as he seems to claim in the (assessment) report but you’re a criminal,” he said.

But judge Greg Macdonald agreed to adjourn the case for further assessments and Chisholm will return to court for sentencing in July.

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