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Ellen Manning
Fri, 7 October 2022 at 5:14 pm


A pensioner left a woman traumatised after he grabbed her and kissed her as she tried to help him buy a ticket at a Metro station.

Leslie Worthington, 73, grabbed the collar of the woman's jacket and pulled her towards him, kissing her on the lips, Newcastle Crown Court heard.

She pushed him back and told him not to, but has been left traumatised by the incident, which happened at a Metro station in Gateshead last November.

Worthington, of Northam Avenue North, South Shields, who had ten previous convictions including assaults on women, was handed a suspended sentence after pleading guilty to sexual assault.

Much more at: https://sg.news.yahoo.com/pensioner-sexu...47523.html

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the verdict

Gavin Doig, defending, said: "I don't want to minimise the offence but fortunately it was a brief offence and in terms of sexual offending this kiss on the lips falls to the bottom end of seriousness but every victim is different and will be affected in different ways.

"All the women in Northumbria will be protected better by his thinking deficits being addressed than him being taken off the streets for a few weeks with no protection in place."