A MAN who was fined for wearing an offensive T-shirt today claimed that trading standards should stop them being sold in Weymouth shops.

Adam Shepherd, 19, of Hardwick Street, was given an 80-hour community punishment order and ordered to pay £40 for wearing a T-shirt depicting a sex act and words insulting Jesus.

He thinks it is a fuss over nothing, but is angry that he was allowed to buy the

T-shirt in the first place.

He said: "I reckon they shouldn't have even sold me that T-shirt. It's not like it's a banned T-shirt. It was for a heavy metal band.

"There should be someone stopping them being in the shops.

"If they're selling it I thought trading standards or someone like that should have stopped them."

Mr Shepherd was arrested when he and his girlfriend, Bridie Denniss, 17, had gone to the beach to watch the trawler race.

She said: "Me and all of my friends had just been swimming and it was getting to the evening.

"It was getting a bit cold so I asked Adam for his T-shirt.

"The police came over because a lady had complained."

The officer asked Bridie to take it off and she gave it back to Adam, who put it back on while he was walking away from the scene.

He said: "The police probably thought I was taking the mickey but I was cold and it was my only T-shirt."

Paul Carter, divisional trading standards manager, said: "It is not something that falls within the legislation that trading standards deals with.

"If it was an obscene publication or blasphemous it would be the police who would deal with it."

Steve Wooldridge, owner of the Passion and Pain Emporium which sold Adam the T-shirt, was bemused by the situation.

He said that he has no plans to stop selling the T-shirt but would if he was told to by the police.

Mr Wooldridge added: "It's an official product, so the police should question the company who makes them, not the person who buys them."