Sir Charles Sedley was prosecuted for urinating on a crowd from the balcony of Oxford Kate's tavern in Covent Garden.
[5] Samuel Pepys' diary recorded Sedley's acts in detail:[6] Sir Charles Sydly [...] [came] in open day into the Balcone and showed his nakedness, … and abusing of scripture and as it were from thence preaching a mountebank sermon from the pulpit, saying that there he had to sell such a powder as should make all the [women] in town run after him, 1000 people standing underneath to see and hear him.
After hearing the case, the King’s Bench established itself as the primary custos morum of the British Empire due to the abolition of the Star Chamber a few years prior.
[12] In R v Hamilton [2007] EWCA Crim 2062 an act of upskirting in public went undetected until a police search discovered indecent images.
[3][14] In December 1987, artist Rick Gibson exhibited a pair of earrings made with freeze-dried human foetuses at the Young Unknowns Gallery in London.