Garforth menace who had 'dirty protests' died in his cell from heart disease
A pervert who would expose himself and masturbate in public died from heart disease in his cell, a report has concluded.
Former Leeds City Council worker Andrew Siberry, who was known to have “dirty protests” in his cell by urinating and defecating and leaving it smeared on the walls, was being held on remand at HMP Leeds.
The 61-year-old was found unresponsive on June 2 last year. His heart disease was found to be caused by coronary artery atheroma.
A Prison and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) report published this week found that he had received the care he “could have expected in the community”, despite the “unclean” conditions he was often found.
Siberry, of Newfield Crescent, Cliff Top Park, Garforth, had been arrested earlier in 2025 year for exposure, outraging public decency and three counts of harassment in relation to breaches of a restraining order.
Siberry, a former Leeds City Council architect, was jailed for 19 months in February 2024.
He was given a five-year restraining order for him to keep his clothes on in public and ban him from select shops in Garforth, including Tesco Express on Long Meadow Gate, Garforth Garden Centre on Selby Road and Fairburn Convenience Store on Fairburn Drive.
Previous court hearings were told that suffered from bi-polar disorder, exacerbated by his use of alcohol and crack cocaine.
He was jailed in 2020 after being found in the bushes at Garforth’s Barley Hill Road play park with his trousers down.
In January last year he was given a community order for regularly verbally abusing and harassing staff and customers at the Tesco Express.
He tried to steal from the store or demand a taxi be called for him. He twice urinated outside the shop and on two occasions, his shorts fell down, exposing himself to passers by.
He threw a punch at the worker behind the counter in Fairburn Convenience Store and was also seen by a horrified female dog walker masturbating on the grass near a ginnel connecting Ninelands Lane and Fairburn Drive.