Bizarre love triangle exposed

A former athlete who has represented Team GB is on trial accused of exposing himself to elderly residents and staff at two Black Country care homes.

Mark Walcott denies the charges, claiming he was with one of his three lovers when the crimes took place outside Willows Care Home in Darlaston and Bushfield Court in Bilston.

At Wolverhampton Crown Court yesterday, all three of the 34-year-old's love interests were forced to take the stand and hear of his infidelities. The former 100m sprinter, whose career was cut short due to injury, denies flashing on five occasions between October 22 and December 10 last year.

The court heard a panic alarm and CCTV were installed at Willows Care Home, Dangerfield Lane, after residents reported a man exposing himself in the street.

Police kept watch from inside and from the street. Staff saw a man in the road at 3am and told officers. Walcott, of Walsall Road, Willenhall, was arrested early on December 10 in Dangerfield Lane.

The court was told he was a "ladies' man" and earlier he told the the jury: "I don't have a six pack, I have a 10 pack." He said he was in the street to buy milk for his 17-month-old daughter.

He said he would buy it from a milkman as the 24-hour Spar near his home was "too expensive" and milk at a petrol station was always too near the sell-by-date.

Walcott's girlfriend of 11 years, Deborah Price, said he would regularly leave late at night to "go to the gym".

She said: "I had my suspicions he was having an affair. I knew what he was doing but wanted to keep my family together."

Mr David Iles, prosecuting, told her it was not normal behaviour to be buying milk at 3am on Sunday, especially as the baby was asleep at home.

Walcott says that another man, who lives nearby, looks like him and has previous convictions for sexual offences is responsible for the flashing.

* Walcott was a promising 100m sprinter but suffered with hamstring and back problems throughout his athletics career. In 1995, he worked with British sprint coach Keith Antoine.

While in 1990, he and his brother Andrew both won gold medals representing the West Midlands in the English Schools' Athletics Championships. Both brothers also ran for Wolverhampton and Bilston.

Mark Walcott's former lover Puja Dheiman, who met him when they both worked at Wolverhampton's Go Kidz Go, also took to the stand at the city's crown court yesterday.

Miss Dheiman, 31, said he could not have been flashing on one of the nights in question as they were together at Oceana nightclub in Birmingham together.

Prosecutor Mr David Iles said Miss Dheiman's version of events did not match that of Walcott's.

The court also heard from the former athlete's Polish girlfriend Aga Michalska, 25, who said her lover had been with her on some of the nights in question.

The trial continues.