A intoxicated man has been incarcerated after he stole £10 from a 14-year-old kid and sexually assaulted a 14-year-old youngster.
Dean Hughes confronted the kid as he was going to enter a shop in Colchester at 1:30 PM on May 21 of the previous year, soliciting £5, as reported by Ipswich Crown Court.
He grasped the boy’s wrist and retrieved the £10 note after prying his fingers apart.
When he was arrested later in the afternoon, he had a sandwich and £8 change and appeared to be drunk.
Shortly after the robbery, Hughes walked past a 14-year-old schoolgirl, who was with her younger sister, and grabbed her bottom and squeezed it.
Hughes, 40, of Six Bells Court, Braintree, admitted robbery and sexual assault and in addition to being jailed he was ordered to sign the sex offenders’ register for seven years.
Nicola May for Hughes said he was horrified when he saw CCTV of him sexually assaulting the schoolgirl.
She said her client had been homeless and had turned to drink at the time of the offences after his relationship had ended.
At court Hughes was jailed for 17 months.
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