A 66-YEAR-OLD Clevedon man who accosted a teenager at a bus stop has been handed a year's community order.
Barry Dewberry told the 17-year-old girl she was pretty, invited her to his home, held her and tried to kiss her on the lips, Bristol Crown Court heard.
The angry but shaken youngster managed to break free and told her mum and dad. The next day she was with her mum when she spotted Dewberry, became distressed, and police arrested him.
Dewberry, of Stonebridge, Clevedon, pleaded guilty to sexual assault.
The Recorder of Bristol His Honour Judge Neil Ford QC told him his behaviour was wholly inappropriate.
He said: "It may not seem to you to be particularly grave. You will now have the opportunity of reading the victim's personal statement.
"It affected her school, social life, made her insecure and untrusting of strangers and her sleep was affected."
Dewberry was told to do 80 hours of unpaid work and observe a month- long curfew in which he must be at home from 7pm to 6am on an electronic tag.
He was banned from working with children indefinitely, told to register as a sex offender for five years and made the subject of a five-year restraining order banning him from contact with the complainant.
Julian Howells, prosecuting, said the teenager was at the bus stop when Dewberry arrived and the strangers chatted about getting the bus.
Mr Howells said: "The conversation took a different turn. He asked 'where's your boyfriend, a pretty girl like you?' He said 'let me take you out sometime' and there was an awkward silence."
The youngster said she was busy with her exams but Dewberry persisted, the court heard.
Mr Howells said: "He said he lived nearby and suggested she could pop in for coffee, or something stronger like a gin and tonic. He asked how old she was and he said she was lovely and he could give her a cuddle."
The court heard a tussle ensued in which the older man held the girl, saying "go on, just one" before managing to kiss her on her right cheek some three to five seconds.
Dewberry told police he placed a hand around her waist and had kissed her to say goodbye.
The court heard he had a previous conviction for child sex offences.
Simon Goodman, defending, said: "An interchange was perceived in two different ways by the people involved in it. One was profoundly affected and one has difficultly in accepting anything was wrong at all."
Source: http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/Pensioner-tried-kiss-girl-bus-stop/story-17646166-detail/story.html
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