A teen has been banned from Teesside play parks ahead of a trial for an alleged sex act involving a rocking horse and a branch.

Callum Green, 18, appeared before Teesside Magistrates’ Court on Monday afternoon where he pleaded not guilty to the common law charge of outraging public decency, in a Hartlepool play area.

The charge reads: “You, in a public place committed an act outraging public decency by behaving in an indecent manner, namely inserting parts of a “rocking horse” inside yourself whilst masturbating, then pulled a branch off a tree and penetrated yourself.”