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'Erect' Collins likes to dress up as a Smurf in spare time
Part-time Smurf Andrew Collins turned the air blue after forcing his way into a woman’s house and exposing his genitals.
Collins, the self-confessed “smallest person in Enniskillen” was convicted last week after he was found guilty of the crime.
The female victim told Fermanagh Court that on November 22 last year she answered the door to her home and was confronted by vertically challenged Collins, who forced his way into her living room.
Recalling how she followed him the victim, who did not want to be named, said: “He was standing there with his trousers down and then sat down on her couch.
She said he told her: ‘Nobody has to know about it.’
“I told him to get out of my house, I was that freaked out about it, and he left.
“It made me feel really, really upset. He had pulled his trousers down and he was erect. It made me feel very vulnerable,” she added.
The distraught victim fled to her neighbour’s house yet was followed by 29-year-old Collins.
“I was raging and I went for him, I did, and I told him ‘don’t ever come near me again.’ He ran out and said he would get the police for me,” she added.
Collins went to the police and reported his victim for harassment yet when police approached the woman the full, sordid story was revealed.
Defence barrister Miss Phillips claimed Collins contacted the police as “he wanted to clear his name”.
The woman replied: “The man is lying. I know he is lying.”
Collins, who earns extra cash at weekends dressing up as a Smurf for hen and stag parties, told the court he only knew the woman to see and had never been in her house and only entered her neighbour’ home after he heard allegations against him.
He also claimed that he had been the subject of an assault after people began to believe the allegations.
He denied taking his trousers down and exposing his erect penis – “definitely not,” he insisted.
It was also revealed that during police interview that Collins claimed to have an alibi at the time of the incident however the named person refused to back his statement.
The prosecutor asked Collins what reason the woman had for attacking him.
“I don’t know,” he replied.
The prosecutor also pointed out that the woman had identified him.
“I’m not hard to identify,” replied Collins. “I’m the smallest person in Enniskillen.”
District Judge Nigel Broderick said it was an issue of credibility and the woman did not strike him as somebody who had come to court to tell lies.
“I believe that this did happen, that her account is accurate and that Collins “did take down his trousers and expose himself to the injured party”.
He will be sentenced on October 20, following the preparation of a probation report.