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Kieran Bunday, a previously convicted child sex offender, has been jailed after sexually assaulting a teenage boy at a birthday party in Norwich.
Bunday, 38, from Southampton, Hampshire, was a guest at the party in July 2023. Norwich Crown Court heard the victim was sitting in the lounge playing on his phone when Bunday, who was “fairly drunk,” sat beside him and began rubbing his legs over his trousers, touching his thighs, groin and penis. The assault continued for three to four minutes after the boy asked him to stop. When others entered the room, Bunday behaved as if nothing had happened.
The victim later said the incident left him feeling “disgusted,” “dirty” and “horrible about myself.” In a victim impact statement, he described becoming a “shell of who I used to be,” adding that he had attempted to take his own life afterwards and only recovered “because of the support of my family.”
Bunday had previously been jailed in 2012 for two counts of rape of a child and gross indecency with a child. He admitted the new charge of sexual assault.
Judge Andrew Shaw described him as a “dangerous offender” who posed a “high risk to children of serious harm by you committing further sexual offences.” The judge imposed an extended sentence of six years, comprising three years and four months in custody followed by two years and eight months on licence.
In mitigation, Benjamin Thiele-Long said Bunday had been young at the time of his earlier offences and claimed he had “no memory” of the birthday-party assault because of his drunkenness, though he had admitted the charge and was “anxious” about the outcome.
Bunday was also made the subject of a 10-year restraining order banning any contact with the victim and remains on the sex offenders’ register for life. The teenage victim cannot be identified for legal reasons.