Record details
Remorseless Rotherham man 'sexually molested' teen at party after believing he got away with first assault.
42-year-old Colin Shearer carried out the majority of the sex assaults against the complainant, a teenage girl, during the course of a party they both attended.
Sheffield Crown Court heard how Shearer first sexually assaulted the complainant three months earlier, in a separate incident.
Sending Shearer to prison, The Recorder of Sheffield, Judge Jeremy Richardson KC, said Shearer took the chance to sexually molest the complainant at the party, after believing he had got away with the first incident.
Referring to the party, during which Shearer sexually assaulted the complainant five times, Judge Richardson continued: You took advantage of a vulnerable girl. It was repeated. At the time, although she was not inebriated, she was affected by alcohol which she had consumed at the party. During a hearing held on November 26, 2024, Judge Richardson suggested the effects of the alcohol, along with her age, had rendered the complainant vulnerable.
Shearer, of Wesley Avenue, Aston, Rotherham, sought to deny any wrongdoing but his account was rejected by jurors, who found him guilty of six counts of sexual assault at the conclusion of a trial in the same court.
Jailing him for 20 months, Judge Richardson told Shearer he may be in a different position had he admitted to his crimes, because forcing a trial meant he had forfeited what would have been potent mitigation.
