AN ANGRY man threw leaflets at council staff and exposed his buttocks at a CCTV camera.

Warren Leake went to Worthing Borough Council’s planning department and became aggressive in a row about his housing needs.

The 35-year-old is disabled after suffering brain injuries during a car crash.

During a tirade at the council offices he threw leaflets and threatened to attack staff.

He grabbed a computer monitor and shouted: “F*** off I’m going to throw this at you.”

Then on his way out he pulled down his trousers and exposed himself to the security camera.

At Worthing Magistrates’ Court he admitted threatening to destroy property and causing a public nuisance by indecent exposure.

Magistrates told him: “This is no way to behave towards people just doing their job in the public duty.”

Suzanne Soros, prosecuting, said Leake had gone into the council offices in Chapel Road at 3.30pm on August 1 last year.

She said: “He was angry and shouting in the main reception about his housing situation and was unhappy about where he was allocated to live.

“When staff  told him a manager was unavailable he became aggressive. He grabbed hold of a leaflet holder and was shouting at a staff member ‘you are a f****** b****’.

“They immediately called police, and while they did so he swore numerous times. He grabbed a computer monitor and threatened to smash it, he said ‘f*** off I’m going to throw this at you’.

“He threw paperwork and is then seen removing his trousers below his buttocks on camera.”

Ms Soros said Leake felt he should have been awarded “special” accommodation by the council.

She said he has 18 convictions for 38 previous offences, and twice returned to the council offices in the same month last year, where he smashed a window on one occasion and pushed over a leaflet stand on another.

Matthew Baines, defending, said: “He acknowledges that his behaviour was wrong. 

“The house he is in is inappropriate. It was noted by a judge in another court that he should be given alternative accommodation. But it is a wholly different thing  whether that can be provided.”

The court heard Leake had struggled to attend probation appointments because of mobility problems.

He also struggles with speech and communication and was left deaf in one ear after the car crash.

Magistrate Peter Sutton said: “I can totally understand the frustration, but it’s no way to behave to people doing their job, who were probably just as frustrated and powerless as you feel.”

Leake, of The Avenue, Goring, was put under curfew for eight weeks from 7pm to 7am. He must also pay £85 court costs and an £85 victim surcharge.