A DRUNK pervert from Widnes who incited a teenage girl to engage in a sexual activity has been caged.
John Carr, 49, of Bell House Road, was sentenced today at Warrington Crown Court to three years imprisonment by Judge Neil Flewitt QC.
The court heard from Matthew Dunford, prosecuting, that the incident took place on the afternoon of Thursday, June 4, this year.
Mr Dunford said that the victim – who cannot be identified for legal reasons – was returning from a shop down an alleyway to the back of her house and saw the defendant.
The prosecution said that Carr – who wore a dark T-shirt in the dock – had a small dog on a lead and that he walked towards the victim and made an indecent proposition to her.
Mr Dunford said the victim was ‘shocked’ and backed away, before Carr asked her ‘can I have your knickers?’ in an incident took place outside the house gate.
The victim shouted to her father and ‘started to panic’, the prosecution added, and she ran up a path and back to her house.
Mr Dunford said that the victim’s father initially ran to try to find the defendant, before jumping into his car and discovering Carr.
The defendant was later arrested by police and told officers in interview that he had been ‘drinking all day’ and ‘denied saying anything to the girl at that stage’, Mr Dunford said.
Personal statements from the victim read out in court by the prosecution said that the incident is ‘always on my mind’ and that she ‘never’ wants to go out of her house’s back gate.
A statement from the victim’s mother said that her daughter was ‘up all night vomiting’ following the incident and was ‘shouting for her dad’ in her sleep.
The defendant’s previous convictions included a community order given at Chester Crown Court for making and possessing indecent images of children and possessing extreme pornography last December.
Jamie Baxter, defending, said that his client had drunk two bottles of brandy and two bottles of cider at the time of the offence.
The defence said that Carr had no recollection of walking towards the girl or saying either sentences.
He said: “He had been living quite a sorry life and had been so for quite a few years.
“He accepts he simply must have said what he did.”
Mr Baxter added that the incident was ‘spontaneous’ and said that his client made ‘no attempts to grab hold’ of the victim when she fled the scene.
Sentencing Carr to 36 months behind bars for one count of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, Judge Flewitt said that the victim was a ‘potentially dangerous man’ and said that there were ‘a number of serious aggravating features’.
He said: “Firstly and most significant is the location at which this offence took place.
“It took place effectively on this young girl’s doorstep and the consequences of that are clear by the victim personal statements made by the girl herself and her mother.
“You were heavily under the influence of alcohol, prescriptive and non-prescriptive drugs at the time of committing this offence.”
Following the sentence, the judge asked the prosecution to tell the victim of his ‘admiration’ for her and that she is a ‘very brave girl’.
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