The former Premier League striker Neil Shipperley has been sentenced to 12 months community service, for having exposed himself in front of a mother and her 16-year-old daughter in a public place.

It writes the BBC.

The 44-year-old Shipperley reported at the time, even to the police with the words ‘I have a problem’ after the incident, which took place on 17. september of this year in west London.

in Addition to one year of community service should be Neil Shipperley undergo a 20-hour rehabiliteringskursus. It emerged in court Uxbridge Magistrates’ Court in London on Wednesday.

According to the prosecutor had Shipperley driven his van up on the side of the victims, while he rolled down the window before he stopped the car.

there went the mother and daughter away from the car, but the former Premier League player followed after them.

He has previously admitted to the court that he had stared at the mother and the daughter from his white van, while he had his penis out of his pants.

In a statement says the mother:

“Some people may look flashere as pests or nuisances to society. My view on Neil Shipperley is a predator. His goal was to scare us, violate us and shock us.”

In court, it emerged that Shipperley was both ashamed and embarrassed over the incident, but that he most of all regretted what he had done.

Neil Shipperley played in the course of his 15 year long career for clubs such as Chelsea, Southampton, Crystal Palace.

He stopped his active career in 2013.