Pervert Sherborne OAP jailed for telling girl, 12 she had ‘nice boobs’
A foul-mouthed Sherborne pensioner has been jailed for 18 weeks after telling a 12-year-old girl that she had “nice boobs” as she waited for a bus.
Pervert Keith Clifford Male, 80, approached the girl, and after making the lewd remark added: “If they are on show then obviously I’m going to look”.
He then turned on a man who was talking to the young girl because she was upset and called him a “dirty old b*****d”.
And when the police arrived at the scene at Yeovil Bus Station he called the officer a “f***ing w****r” and asked if he wanted a fight.
After being arrested he appeared before District Judge David Taylor at Yeovil to be sentenced who was told that he was now in breach of a suspended prison sentence previously imposed for making racist remarks to a young black girl.
A probation officer said that Male’s risk of re-offending had now increased after he had gone back on the booze and said that the defendant did not consider himself as a violent person.
Male, of Richmond Green, pleaded guilty that on December 16 last year at Yeovil bus station he committed two counts of using threatening or abusive words or behaviour, or disorderly behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress.
He also admitted an offence that with intent to cause John Hornbook harassment, alarm or distress he used threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour towards him in Middle Street.
Prosecutor Julyan Stephens said that the 12-year-old girl was at the bus station at 5.30pm with friends waiting for a bus when Male approached her and said: “nice boobs”.
“She was shocked and distressed at his reference to her body and said she was disgusted, and the defendant then said: “If they are on show then obviously I’m going to look,” he said.
“A man heard this and when he challenged Male about his behaviour he was given some verbal abuse . The defendant walked off but returned and then approached Mr Northbook who was nearby and said: “you dirty old b*****d.”
“When the victim asked if the comment was directed at him Male asked him if he wanted a fight, causing him to feel alarmed, and the police were called.”
An officer went to speak to Male who continued swearing at him and shouting abuse and when he asked if he also wanted a fight he was arrested.
During interview with the police Male admitted he had drunk several pints of cider adding that he was an alcoholic, and when shown CCTV footage of the 12 year old girl accepted it was him but said he could not recall anything about the incidents at the bus station. He added that he regretted what he had done and was sorry.
The girl later made a statement to the police saying the incident had not made her feel very good.
She said: “It was very embarrassing as all the people could hear what he said.
“I thought what he said was disgusting and it made me feel very uncomfortable about my body image and I feel the old man needs to have some treatment for what he said.”
The police officer said that Male continued to swear loudly at him and ended up coming right up to his face, gritting his teeth, and said he feared he was going to be hit by the defendant.
In sentencing Male, District Judge Taylor said that the case had portrayed him as a man who was unable to control his drink and committed offences involving direct harm to members of the public.
“The 12-year-old girl said that your utterly uncalled-for and drunken observations about her body had made her feel not good about herself, and made her feel uncomfortable about her body image,” he said.
“This sort of harm can remain with young people like this all of their life
He said that Male’s approaches to Mr Hornbook in the town centre had “preyed on his mind” and he did not feel as if he could walk the streets safely.
“And then you offered to fight the police constable and he thought you were going to hit him,” he said.
“There is the balance of the courts to try and help people rehabilitate themselves and to mark out serious offending by way of imprisonment in appropriate cases.
“I bear in mind your age and health difficulties, and having done so I am quite satisfied that nothing can suggest it would be unjust to activate the suspended prison sentence today.”
For the breach of the suspended sentence and the current offences he sentenced Male to a total of 18 weeks in prison and ordered him to pay a £115 victim surcharge on his release.
