[A] PENSIONER has been sentenced for flouting a court punishment by making gestures towards a girl he had previously sexually assaulted.
Lawrence Robinson, 78, was handed a suspended jail term in 2016 for illegal sexual contact with that teenager the previous year.
As part of his sentence, Robinson was also banned through the terms of a restraining order both from contacting his victim and going within 50 metres of her home.
But Carlisle Crown Court heard today (FRI) he was seen outside her address in early November. He denied being present. But magistrates who convicted him of breaching the order after a trial heard he was seen to shake his head and fist, and point his fingers.
This had left the girl “crying” and “shaking, and had a “profound effect” on the girl and her mother. “They feel their lives have been ruined by the defendant,” prosecutor Beccy McGregor told the court.
John Smith, defending Robinson, said there had been “no direct contact” during a “brief incident”.
Recorder Julian Shaw imposed an 18-month community order and ordered the pensioner to complete a four-month, night-time curfew for his breaches.
But Recorder Shaw told Robinson, of Pearl Road, Salterbeck, Workington: “Seventy-eight years old or not, the court orders are to be complied with. Do you understand?”
