Paedo pensioner gropes woman in lift the day before he is found guilty of child sex attack on a London bus
OAP put his arm around the woman's waist before rubbing his hand down her trousers at Blackfriars Crown Court
A 74-year-old man who groped a woman in a court building whilst standing trial for a sex attack on a child was jailed for 20 weeks.
Ahmet Sami put his arm around the 22-year-old before slipping his hand between her ribs and thigh while they were alone together in the lift.
The victim, who cannot be named, was left feeling 'sick and violated' by the assault on 28 May last year at Blackfriars Crown Court, in central London.
The following day, the pensioner was convicted of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl on a London bus.
He was handed a three-month suspended sentence but was jailed for 20 weeks after pleading guilty to sexual assault at the Old Bailey.
Sentencing him at the Old Bailey, Judge Rebecca Poulet QC warned him: "You must not ever behave in this way again."
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She added: "I find that, bearing in mind, you were on trial for a similar offence at the time, that I cannot fail to impose an immediate custodial sentence."
The court heard Sami struck during a break in his trial for attacking a young girl.
"You were on bail in the court building and used the lift to go from the first floor to the ground floor," said the judge.
She explained a young woman got into the small lift and they were the only two people inside.
"As the doors closed you moved close to her and you commented on her height saying that she was tall.
"She was in fact wearing high heels that day but you also put your left arm around her waist, putting your hand between her ribs and her thigh.
"She immediately moved away as far as she could but, using some pressure, you rubbed your hand down towards her thigh over the top of her trousers.
"Moments later the doors opened on the ground floor and she hurried out."
The victim, who described felling 'sick and violated' told a security guard who told Sami: "You shouldn't have touched her."
He replied: "Oh, sorry."
The next day he was convicted and remanded in custody at Belmarsh prison but was handed a suspended jail term when sentenced three weeks later.
Judge Poulet told him: "This offence to my mind, whilst itself is not of course in the gravest category of indecent assault, it unquestionably had a traumatising affect on the victim."
Sami, of (Flat 7) Rivermead House, Homerton Road, Hackney, east London pleaded guilty to a single count of indecent assault.
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