When Shane Anthony Willis, 33, was arrested in Bendigo in April this year he told police he’d been “off me head for a while’’ and that he’d been doing “stupid things’’ while on drugs.

The Melbourne man committed a series of brazen burglaries and thefts over a three-month period.

On one occasion he broke into the Como Cricket Club change rooms in Melbourne and stole seven mobile phones and 13 wallets owned by the players and umpires who were involved in a match.

He then used some of the mobile phones to take photographs of his penis and sent them via MMS to the phone owner’s friends.

The Melbourne Magistrates Court yesterday heard that a victim of one phone theft, a student at a Melbourne private school, was reported to his year 11 head teacher after another student received the image.

In a police summary tendered in court by prosecutor Michael Robinson, investigators found during a search of the house that Willis had taken photos of his penis inside those premises and sent the images to various contacts whose details were stored inside the stolen phones.

The background of some of the images was of the premises, including curtains and a TV.

When Willis’s three-month crime spree ended with his arrest in Bendigo last April, he was asked to comment. He replied: “I’ve been off me head for a while ... so ... on drugs, so I couldn’t tell you what I’ve done.”

He admitted he had been “running amok” and doing “stupid things”.

Yesterday he pleaded guilty to more than 60 charges including aggravated burglary, theft and using a carriage service to menace.

He did not apply for bail and was remanded in custody for a plea hearing in the Melbourne County Court in November.

– with Steve Butcher, The Age