Man jailed for sexual assault on girl at North Yorkshire bus station

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Wayne Herrington, 47, was jailed for seven months after sexually assaulting an underage girl at a North Yorkshire bus station.

Wayne Herrington, 47, was jailed for seven months at York Crown Court after sexually assaulting an underage girl at a North Yorkshire bus station. The incident occurred on a summer evening earlier this year. Herrington, of no fixed address, appeared drunk when he approached the girl as she was waiting for her bus. He asked her age, and when she told him and moved away to a different bench, he followed her and began to speak sexually to her.

The girl did not initially report the assault. However, when she saw Herrington again a few days later in the same town, she became concerned and reported the matter to police. Prosecutor James Yearsley told the court Herrington had been 'mumbling and looked weird' when he approached her.

Herrington pleaded guilty to causing a child to engage in sexual activity, sexual assault and sexual communication with a child. The Recorder of York, Judge Sean Morris, told him: 'It was a dirty old man leching at a young girl while you were drunk.' In addition to the jail term, he was made subject to a five-year restraining order banning all contact with the girl and placed on the sex offenders' register for ten years. A year before this incident, Herrington had received a 16-week suspended prison sentence for sexually assaulting a woman police officer.

How it is being reported

• 'Dirty old man' jailed for molesting underage girl at North Yorkshire bus stationA ‘dirty old man’ sexually assaulted a girl at a North Yorkshire bus station and groped a woman police officer in separate incidents, York Crown Court heard.Gazette & Herald (Malton) · 24 Oct, 05:00
• 'Dirty old man' jailed for molesting underage girl at North Yorkshire bus stationA ‘dirty old man’ sexually assaulted a girl at a North Yorkshire bus station and groped a woman police officer in separate incidents, York Crown Court heard.York Press · 24 Oct, 05:00

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