A DISGRUNTLED man pooped on the floor of a police cell after his request for toilet roll was said to have been ignored.

Ian Brock, 31, was caught on CCTV pulling his trousers down and defecating in a corner.

He then smeared his own excrement on the walls and threw a lump of it at the camera.

Brock, of Rectory Road, Llangwm, pleaded guilty to causing criminal damage when he appeared before Haverfordwest Magistrates Court on Tuesday (October 4).

Prosecutor Vaughan Pritchard-Jones said Brock had been arrested for an unrelated matter and was “highly intoxicated” when he carried out the dirty protest.

“In interview, he admitted what he had done and said he was disgusted with himself,” said Mr Pritchard-Jones.

“He apologised, but claimed he’d done it because the cell’s previous occupant had urinated on the toilet seat, and that he’d wanted toilet roll to wipe it off but officers didn’t provide it.

"He said he’d been treated like an animal, so he thought he may as well c**p on the floor.”

The prosecutor added that police denied failing to give Brock toilet roll and said the cell had been clean when he was put in to it, so if there was urine on the toilet seat, it must have been his.

Mark Layton, defending, said his client had been “constantly ringing” the buzzer in his cell to ask for toilet roll but failed to elicit a response.

“He accepts his reaction to this was very poor and to some extent he can understand why he was ignored, because he’d been a bit of a problem earlier that evening,” Mr Layton said.

“He tells me he complained to one of the sergeants and it was acknowledged there had been some shortcomings in his care.”

Describing the incident as “deeply unpleasant”, magistrates fined Brock £80 and ordered him to pay court costs of £115,