Serial predator most recently sexually assaulted a young mum.
Offender ID: O-1477
Locations
London Road, Sandbach, Cheshire, CW11
Description
A SERIAL sex predator struck at a Crewe charity shop just two weeks after being released from prison.
Daniel OGrady, 47, of London Road, Sandbach, was convicted at Chester Crown Court on Thursday of sexually assaulting a young mum in the DebRA charity shop on September 11 last year.
He denied a charge of touching without consent but was found guilty after a two-day trial. He was cleared of a second count of sexual assault against an unidentified young girl in the same shop.
The jury heard how he approached his victim from behind in a thrusting movement an almost identical assault to his seven previous convictions of indecently assaulting a child between the ages of five and 13.
The woman in her 20s, who cannot be named, was browsing in the Victoria Centre charity shop at about 3.15pm with her one-year-old daughter when OGrady struck.
In tears on the witness stand, she said: I felt somebody bang into me from behind. He thrust himself against me twice.
When I looked around he was really startled and rushed off to the other side of the store.
The jury also heard from shop manager Susan Hindle, who described how OGrady caught her eye as soon as he walked in because he looked suspicious.
She said: He walked past the counter and I smiled but he didnt smile back and seemed to have a funny expression on his face.
She called the shopping centre security after the young woman told her what had happened.
OGrady, who was also convicted in 2004 of exposing himself in a petrol station shop, was arrested by police in a furniture shop 15 minutes later.
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