A MAN was "buzzing" on a sex-drug as he climbed a drain pipe to spy on a woman in the hopes of seeing her undressing.

Jobless Lee Preston, of Shepherds Lane, Mill End, Rickmansworth, confessed he fantasied about the woman and has been ordered to pay for the £241 repairs to her drain pipe.

The Peeping Tom climbed up the cast iron pipe in the early hours of March 29 while he was high on GBH, a drug which enhances sex drive.

Prosecutor Miss Caroline Mungal told Wimbledon Magistrates Court this week that the German-born woman noticed a piece of her broken black drainpipe on her first-floor terrace in the morning.

She also spotted a purple hoodie in nearby bushes and a neighbour confirmed hearing noises in the early hours.

CCTV showed Preston wandering around the grounds surrounding the gated property in Battersea in the early hours.

Police arrested Preston, who had been temporarily staying with a friend nearby after matching his DNA to DNA found on the hoodie.

Miss Mungal told the court : “He said he was high on GHB and that it made him sexual and he was buzzing off the drugs and had previously been caught masturbating in public when he took it.

“He said he climbed up because he thought it was a turn on after seeing a lady undressing and that he was high that night.

“Preston told the officers he was very embarrassed and that he was sorry.”

The court heard he has previous convictions for criminal damage and public order offences.

His lawyer Miss Roz Olason told the court: “It was two or three in the morning and the lady was not up and about.

“There is no reason Mr. Preston thought there would be any benefit from climbing up the drainpipe other than he was high on drugs that do cause sexual urges.”

Preston was fined £80, with £40 costs and ordered to pay £241 compensation.

Preston had also charged with attempting to observe a person doing a private act for the purpose of obtaining sexual gratification, contrary to the Criminal Attempts Act.

However, this count, which did not name the woman he had climbed the drain-pipe to spy on was dropped earlier.