A 58-YEAR-OLD Dudley man caught engaging in a sex act with a headmaster at a West Midlands beauty spot has been fined £250 by a judge.

John Brown, a divorced father-of-three, was found guilty by a jury at the end of his trial on a unanimous verdict of outraging public decency.

The unemployed builder, of Oakham Road, was also ordered to pay £100 costs after being arrested near the Swan Pool at the Sandwell Valley park in West Bromwich.

He was with 39-year-old Liam Nolan, head of the 900-pupil Perry Beeches Secondary School in Birmingham and both men stressed to police officers there had been no impropriety.

Brown said he had been to a job interview on the day in question, went to the Valley for a walk and needed to urinate.

"I can categorically deny anything went on. Nothing at all happened," said Brown.

Nolan, who earns £64,000 a year as a headteacher, also denied outraging public decency but he too was convicted on a unanimous verdict at the end of their trial.

He was fined £1,000 by Judge Michael Dudley and also ordered to pay £1,500 towards prosecution costs.

The four-man, eight-woman jury at Wolverhampton Crown Court on Monday (June 4) retired for two hours to consider the evidence before returning their verdicts.

Nolan admitted to the court he was openly gay and said he had been in a relationship for the last four years but added: "I needed to urinate after I went to Sandwell Valley. Nothing happened with Mr Brown. This is a ridiculous charge."

The jury heard part of Sandwell Valley was known as a meeting spot for gay men.