A repeat sexual offender from Leek has been jailed after offering a woman £800 to perform a sex act on him.
Dean Walmsley, 25, from Selbourne Road, was jailed for 20 months at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court for breaching his Sexual Offenders Prevention Order.
Walmsley was in Hanley on August 12 this year when he spotted his victim and followed her from Clough Street to Tesco and back to Potteries Way before approaching her.
The defendant commented on the victim’s backside, then continued to tell her he wanted to have sex with her.
After a short discussion, he told her he would pay her £800 for her to give him oral sex, the court was told.
Prosecutor Heather Chamberlin said: “He had followed her from Clough Street to the Tesco cash machine in Hanley where she got money out.
“She noticed he was following her, and continued to do so as she walked to Potteries Way.
“He approached her and said ‘I like your bum’ to which she responded with why he went for older women as she believed she was old enough to be his mother.”
Mrs Chamberlin added: “The conversation was normal at the start with the victim and then it turned sexual. He knew he had gone too far.”
The defendant was arrested by a police officer who was close to the scene and pleaded guilty immediately to breaching his Sexual Offenders Prevention Order.
Nicola Bell, mitigating, said: “The defendant has learning disabilities and is dealing with real cognitive deficits.
“He has a low rate of intellectual functioning.
“He has never completed a full program of rehabilitation and keeps repetitively breaching his orders.
“He doesn’t like the person he has become and needs to complete the rehabilitation so he can change.”
Jailing Walmsley, Recorder Andrew Easteal said: “You could have caused a serious amount of fear and worry. You degraded and humiliated the victim.
“Although you have shunned and rejected every opportunity to change, I will have to send you back into custody.
“You have expressed a passionate desire to become a different and better person but you’re going to have to demonstrate some self-control and maturity.”
Walmsley was convicted of possessing indecent images of children in August this year, and has breached five of his Sexual Offender Prevention Orders.
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