Mostyn,North Wales - Flintshire family man ordered to register as sex offender after touching 16-year-old

Published date: 18 March 2016 | 

Published by: Staff reporter
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A FAMILY man convicted of touching a teenage girl’s bottom over her clothing in a dark wood at night has been told by magistrates he really could not be proud of what he had done.

Leon Dean, 33, denied sexually assaulting a 16-year-old in the Mostyn area last November but was convicted.

He was made the subject of a three-year community order at Flintshire Magistrates Court yesterday and placed on supervision so he could follow a sex offender programme run by the probation service.

He was made the subject of a five-year sexual harm prevention order and ordered to register with the police as a sex offender for five years.

Dean, of Ffordd Pennant, Mostyn, was also made the subject of a five-year restraining order under which he is not to contact the victim by any means.

Magistrates told him he had a partner, a child and stepchildren, he had responsibilities and the order was intended to help him not to reoffend.

He was warned he could easily have gone to prison, especially as he was under a suspended jail sentence at the time.

Prosecutor Rhian Jackson showed magistrates a text message he had sent the girl saying “are we going to the meadows?”.

Dean went to the woods to urinate and was convicted of touching her bottom over her clothing.

The incident had affected the girl’s education, she feared seeing him again and did not want him to make any future contact.

Dean had previous convictions for 31 offences. In May last year for an offence of common assault he received a 90-day prison sentence, suspended for two years. 

The offence put him in breach of that order, she said.

The location of the offence in a wooded area late at night and the fact there was a 17-year age gap were all aggravating features, Mrs Jackson said.

Gary Harvey, defending, said Dean appreciated he could be sent into custody. But he ran his own business and employed two others who relied upon him.

He supported his a partner, a child and three stepchildren.

Mr Harvey said it would be far better for Dean, those who relied upon him and the general public for him to be dealt with in the community rather than being sent into custody.

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