Sex attacker breached court order banning him from being with lone women

A SEX attacker has been convicted of breaching a court order to protect the public.

Andrew Brook, who was given an extended jail term in 2003 for falsely imprisoning and indecently assaulting a woman, admitting having contact with a woman - a flout of the terms of his sexual offences prevention order.

The 58-year-old, of Station Road, Blackpool, is subject to a five year order that banned him from being in the presence of a lone female, Preston Crown Court was told.

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Rachel Woods, prosecuting, said: “ It’s fair to say the defendant and the victim met prior to this incident, which happened on March 2, 2016.

“They had known each other about a month. She had apparently him asked him for a cigarette and they got chatting.

“She bumped into him one day and she agreed she would go back to his flat to cut his hair for him.

“ There was alcohol consumed and clearly there was some sexual contact between them because at some point he had left the room and returned without his underpants.

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“ Whatever transpired between the two parties it’s fair to say she did leave the premises in a certain amount of distress.

“She went to a neighbour, the police were called, and he was arrested.”

The court heard in a police interview, Brook’s account was the contact between them had been “entirely consensual and a business transaction”, with him claiming he had given her money in anticipation of being “gratified”.

But at the time the order meant he was subject to a prohibition he should not have had a female in his premises.

The court heard Brook has 32 convictions for 49 offences.

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He has previously been jailed for breaching the same order by engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child.

Recorder Mark Ainsworth said: “This is in may ways a very unusual case. But of course the events of March 2 take place against a background of your previous involvement with the courts for similar offences.

“This is the third time you’ve been before the court for the breach of a SOPO. You must understand when the court makes these orders the court demands they are carried out.2

But he accepted he was responding well to supervision and imposed a three month curfew and £100 victim surcharge.