October 2014
Pervert with history of sex offending pleads guilty to allowing a child to watch a sex act
A SEX offender has pleaded guilty to allowing a child to watch a sex act.
York Crown Court heard that Michael John Hall was seen by three schoolgirls at Selby Railway Station on November 16.
Aisha Wadoodi, prosecuting, said: “The girls approached a member of the public. He told them to contact the police and that the defendant often behaved in this manner.”
Hall, 54, has a history of indecent exposure and other sexual convictions starting in the 1970s but has never been sent to prison.
Recorder Mark Hill QC said successive courts may have been concerned that his disabilities would make him very vulnerable and liable to being exploited in prison.
Defence solicitor Julian Tanikal said Hall was awaiting an appointment with a local psychiatrist in the hope he would be prescribed medicine to suppress his urges.
Hall, of Dixon Gardens, Selby, pleaded guilty to allowing a child to watch a sexual act.
The judge gave Hall a community order with 18 months’ supervision by the probation service and a three-month nightly curfew from 8pm to 6am and made him subject to a sexual offences prevention order banning him from having unsupervised contact with a girl under 16 or living in the same house as a girl under 16.
Mr Tanikal said Hall had managed to stay out of trouble between 1991 and 2001 when he was on medication, and between 2001 and 2013 when he managed to stay off alcohol.
