Published date: 22 December 2016 |
A young mum was sexually assaulted in a bus shelter in Flintshire.
The victim was waiting with her children at a bus stop on Deeside and chatted to another passenger.
Pensioner Alexander Brown ended up tickling one of her children as she sat on her knee – but he touched her breast as he did so.
Brown, 66, of Dodds Court in Shotton, had pleaded not guilty and was due to go on trial at Flintshire Magistrates Court at Mold yesterday.
But he changed his plea and admitted the offence.
He was ordered to register with the police as a sex offender on an interim basis and sentence was adjourned until January.
Brown was bailed on condition that he did not approach the victim in any way.
Prosecutor Helen Hall said Brown had a previous conviction in 2008 “in very similar circumstances”.
Defence solicitor Phillip Lloyd Jones said it had been alleged that Brown had touched the woman’s breast on her skin.
But his basis of plea that he had touched her over her clothing was now accepted by the prosecution.
“It is agreed that on that day he was walking along the street.
“In a bus shelter was a woman and her children,” Mr Lloyd Jones explained.
They had been chatting for some seven or eight minutes, her daughter was sitting on her knee and it was accepted that he started tickling the child which he now understood was inappropriate.
He conceded that during that incident that there was contact with the woman’s breast.
Magistrates said in view of the nature of the charge they would need a full pre-sentence report.
They told Brown all sentencing options would be available to the court in January.
http://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/170482/pensioner-admits-sexually-assaulting-young-mum-at-bus-shelter-on-deeside.aspx
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