Begging Leeds pervert groped woman who gave him money outside Brudenell Social Club
A beggar groped a woman after she gave him more money than he asked for outside a popular music venue.
Alexis Pinder then hung around waiting for the woman who was in the Brudenell Social Club, and sexually touched her again when he saw her leave.
The 44-year-old appeared at Leeds Crown Court over a video link from HMP Leeds where he was being held on remand.
He had been found guilty after a trial at Leeds Magistrates’ Court.
Prosecutor Verity Barnes said the woman and her children had been heading to the live music venue in Hyde Park on the evening of October 2 last year.
Her children got out of ther car and were approached by Pinder who asked them if they had a pound to spare.
When the woman parked up on Queens Road and got out moments later, Pinder approached her and asked the same question.
She gave him £2.20. He kissed her on the cheek and began walking with her, putting his arm around her.
He asked her to go to the pub with him, grabbed her breasts four times and felt her bottom.
She went into the club but had to move her car later and found Pinder waiting for her. Again he grabbed her breasts while asking her again to come to the pub with him.
The victim laughed it off but was scared because Pinder, who introduced himself as “Diamond”, was “erratic and unpredictable”.
The woman later contacted the police and identified Pinder in an ID parade.
Pinder, of Regent Terrace, Hyde Park, was later arrested but denied sexual assault.
The court heard that he has five previous convictions for eight offences, including a previous sexual assault from 2016 when he followed a lone female who got on a bus and touched her thighs.
Mitigating, Martin Morrow said Pinder was begging and on drugs at the time of his latest sexual assault.
The judge, Recorder Jeremy Hill-Baker told Pinder: “You were begging, in effect.
“She gave you some money. You showed your gratitude to her but went beyond what was acceptable behaviour.
“You sexually assaulted her in broad daylight, or at the very least in public.”
He gave Pinder an 18-month community order, saying there was work that probation could do with him.
He ordered him to enroll on a 26-session probation programme, put him on the sex offender register for five years and gave him a two-year sexual harm prevention order (SHPO) to prevent him from approaching any lone female in public.