A “dangerous” sex offender has been jailed again after he subjected a teenage girl to a shocking broad daylight attack on the doorstep of her Calderdale home.
The youngster, who must not be identified for legal reasons, had been talking to drink-fuelled David Collier at the front door when the 35-year-old began making crude sexualised comments and rubbing his genital area.
The incident, which took place on a residential street last year, was captured on CCTV footage which was played in court and it showed cars driving by and even a pedestrian walking his dog within a few feet of the defendant.
During the sexual assault Collier touched the girl between her legs over her clothing and forcibly kissed her before taking his penis out and rubbing it over her chest. The girl was able to go back inside her home when another male approached Collier.
During a hearing at Bradford Crown Court on Wednesday, it was revealed that back in 2013 Collier, of Woodstock Road, Manchester, had been jailed for eight-and-a-half years for attempting to rape a man.
While serving that sentence Collier had completed a sex offender programme, but Judge Ahmed Nadim said today that the defendant did not seem to have learned from that experience. The judge said: “That tells us something about the future risk he presents.”
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Collier admitted offences of sexual assault, engaging a child in sexual activity and engaging in sexual behaviour in the presence of a child and his barrister Jo Shepherd said he was thoroughly ashamed of his behaviour that evening.
Judge Nadim concluded that Collier met the “dangerous offender” criteria and imposed a 30-month jail sentence with an extended licence period of 18 months. Collier will also have to comply with a sexual harm prevention order for the next 15 years and he is already subject to sex offender registration with the police for the rest of his life.
In her victim impact statement which was read to the court by the prosecutor the complainant described how she felt she wouldn’t have been believed if there had been no CCTV recording.
Prosecutor Anthony Moore said the girl felt angry, annoyed and isolated.
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Judge Nadim told Collier over a prison video link that he had behaved in a “sexually perverted manner” in broad daylight. He said: “This offending occurred while you were stood on a public pavement on a residential street.”
In reference to the sex offender programme completed by Collier the judge said: ”That measure designed to protect the public interest was insufficient because you, despite having undergone such a programme and served a substantial sentence of imprisonment for a sexual offence, conducted yourself in this way.
“In a public street where you could be viewed by passing traffic and members of the public on the pavement.”
After imposing the extended sentence on Collier the judge told him that he was in cusp of receiving a life sentence for any further offending.
“Your future is in your own hands. Be warned,” he added.
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