A cleaner feared she would be raped after being confronted by a naked OAP trying to give her a “birthday kiss.”
Married Roy Ferguson, 66, narrowly avoided jail after stripping off without warning and pinning the terrified woman into a corner.
Ferguson, of Moor Court, Fazakerley, received an 18-week prison sentence, suspended for two years, at Liverpool Magistrates’ Court today.
He had pleaded guilty to indecent exposure, under the Sexual Offences Act 2003, at an earlier hearing.
The court heard Ferguson had a previous conviction for indecent exposure dating back to 1989.
Andrew Page, prosecuting, said the defendant had been helping a relative with decorating work and was at an address in Southport when the cleaner called round.
The victim was with her mum and Ferguson was alone in the property at the time of the incident, on April 2.
Mr Page said the victim saw Ferguson by the garage, and the pair discussed her recent 50th birthday party while the defendant helped her carry her cleaning products. .
A statement from the victim, read by Mr Page, said: “I was in the kitchen and I could see he was in the conservatory.
“Next thing he comes running in absolutely stark naked, he comes really close and says happy birthday, here’s your birthday kiss.”
The court heard Ferguson pressed his body up to the victim, who was trapped against a kitchen counter shouting “no, no, no.”
The victim said he only ceased after she screamed for her mother.
The impact statement continued: “I turned around and saw him with his arms and legs spread out and I said no three times, but these words meant nothing to him. He only stopped and said sorry when I screamed for my mother.
“I’m convinced he would have raped me if I had been alone.”
The court heard she felt “sick” and “dirty” since the incident and was left feeling a “lack of trust in men.”
Andrew Blennerhassett, representing Ferguson, said: “He accepts this was deviant behaviour, and that it is not normal to do what he did.”
Mr Blennerhassett said his client’s relationship with his wife was “frosty” since the incident, and although they had not split up, he had moved from the matrimonial home.
Magistrates ordered Ferguson to sign the Sex Offenders’ Register for seven years and to complete a rehabilitation programme.
A six-week curfew was imposed and Ferguson was ordered to pay £1,000 compensation to the victim, £85 prosecution costs and an £80 victim surcharge.
He was also given an indefinite restraining order.
Source: http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/