A DRUNKEN church party-goer flashed at a shocked shop worker and then urinated against a wall, a court heard.

Bolton Magistrates were told how Roy Thomas, aged 51, performed the act after attending a party at Our Lady of Lourdes church on Plodder Lane, Farnworth.

Thomas drank so much whisky and vodka during the day that when he left the church in the middle of the afternoon he was staggering, the court heard.

A worker at a nearby shop told District Judge Mark Hadfield that she became concerned when she saw him "hanging about" outside her premises. "He looked a bit suspicious," she said.

"After a couple of minutes of me observing him, that was when he made eye contact with me.

"He made me feel uncomfortable."

Joanne Cronshaw, prosecuting said that Thomas then lifted up the mundu, a traditional South Indian sarong-type garment he was wearing, exposing his genitals to the woman.

"He was swaying his hips, a bit as if to say 'look at me!'" the shop worker told the court.

"He was looking directly at me.

"I was devastated and really upset."

Thomas went on to urinate against a wall in view of the woman and, when he started shoulder barging the window and banging on the door, the shop assistant locked the door and rang police.

"I think he didn't mean any harm. It was the alcohol that had taken over," said the woman.

When interviewed by police Thomas, of Begonia Avenue, Farnworth, denied having flashed at the woman and pleaded not guilty to indecent exposure.

In court he claimed he had folded up the mundu to prevent him tripping over it as he walked to a shop to buy cigarettes and stressed that he had been wearing underpants beneath it.

When asked by Krystal Savoie, defending, whether she could have been mistaken about what she saw, the shop assistant insisted: "I saw that man's genitals 100 percent."

District Judge Hadfield found Thomas guilty of the offence and adjourned sentencing until February 5 to allow time for reports to be prepared.