A Carlisle man has been told he must sign the sex offenders’ register after he admitted groping a girl.
Roland Armstrong, 65, pleaded guilty to one offence of sexual assault on a 14-year-old girl when he appeared at Carlisle Crown Court earlier today.
This crime occurred on October 6 last year when, court papers show, he touched the girl’s breast.
Armstrong, of the city’s Margaret Creighton Gardens, appeared in court from a hospital at which he is currently being detained having been sectioned due to mental health difficulties.
Judge Nicholas Barker adjourned the case for the preparation of a probation service pre-sentence report.
Armstrong is due to be sentenced for the sexual assault on December 8.
On that date he is also set to be punished for four other offences — including three of criminal damage — which he has previously admitted.
These involve the slashing of tyres on three vehicles parked in three different Keswick car parks — at Crosthwaite Road, at Booths supermarket and outside the Theatre by the Lake.
That damage was committed on April 25 this year and Armstrong has also pleaded guilty to the illegal possession of a bladed article on that date.
