A self-styled naturist exposed his manhood to unsuspecting householders while delivering parcels, a court heard.

Robert Jenner delivered parcels for nationwide courier service, Hermes, wearing jeans with a hole cut out in the crutch, it was alleged.

Jenner, 43, of Bingley Close, Snodland denies 11 offences of indecently exposing himself.

Prosecutor Daniel Stevenson claimed Jenner sometimes wore see-through tights or shorts at a supermarket, shopping centre and near a children’s play area.

"He claims to be a naturist and has stood trial in the past and found not guilty of similar offences, which relate to him acting as naked and claiming the right to be naked in public.

"The prosecution say it is his aim that the deliberate exposure of his penis has nothing at all to do with naturism and the only explanation is that he was acting in a deliberately provocative manner, with the full intention of causing as much alarm and distress as possible."

The jury at Canterbury Crown Court heard how in November and December 2017 he worked as a self-employed courier for Hermes - but was sacked after the company received complaints about him flashing while making deliveries.

Mr Stevenson said: "The defendant wore a pair of trousers that were modified by him in that they had a very large hole in the crotch."

Jenner was alleged to have exposed himself to a pregnant woman in Sandlewood Court in Maidstone.

Three days later in December 2017 a father told Jenner to go away after he delivered a parcel; in Four Acres Road, West Malling exposing his genitals while it was snowing and sleeting.

Mr Stevenson claimed Jenner did the same in Stockton Close in Penenden Heath, leaving a mother of a young child feeling "shock and sickened" after he turned up at her home and exposed himself.

"The prosecution say it is his aim that the deliberate exposure of his penis has nothing at all to do with naturism..." prosecutor Daniel Stevenson

In January 2018 he revealed his manhood to staff at a supermarket in Larkfield in Aylesford. Jenner also shocked a 14 year old girl , who was walking in her school uniform in Snodland, it was alleged.

Mr Stevenson claimed Jenner wore see-through trousers at the Chequers Centre in Maidstone, the Leybourne Lakes, while running past a children's play area and near a Maidstone hair salon.

The prosecutor said Jenner admitted to police he was the person described by witnesses – other than the schoolgirl - but denied doing it deliberately to shock, offend or disgust.

Kate Chidgey, defending, told the jury that Jenner strongly believes in naturism and "there was nothing sinister or puerile or sexual" in the exposure of his genitals.

"It was not his intention that people were caused distress by what he did or didn't wear. He wished to promote his beliefs that there is nothing wrong, dirty, or sexual about his nudity."

The trial continues.