A LORRY driver who deliberately smeared excrement on two women has been barred from a Ramsbottom pub.

Mark Follos, aged 51, had denied the allegations, but has been barred from The Oaks, in Bridge Street, after being found guilty of two charges of outraging public decency at Bury Magistrates Court.

The court heard that Follos smeared excrement on women on two separate occasions at the pub, on October 12, 2012, and on October 25 the same year, and admitted that he had not washed his hands.

Follos was arrested about a year later after a CCTV image was circulated through a Pub Watch scheme in Ramsbottom.

Follos was ordered to carry out 100 hours of unpaid work, pay £1,010 costs and was barred from the pub for a year.