Sex pest pensioner told police: ‘Are you supposed to ask permission these days?’
The man, known as 'Dirty Dave', also said: 'If you don’t try it on with someone they will think you’re gay.'
A man with ‘a caveman attitude to consent and boundaries’ has been jailed for two sexual assaults on a woman.
Derby Crown Court heard how David Hannah, 71, sexually assaulted the unnamed woman on two occasions in 2019 but she did not report it until summer 2021.
Prosecutor Mark Achurch said on the first occasion Hannah went to her address and while in the kitchen said ‘you need knobbing by a real man’ then kissed and licked her face.
‘He tried to undress her and then undressed himself,’ Mr Achurch said.
‘His trousers dropped to the floor, he took out his [private parts] and tried to put it in her hand.
‘She brought it to an end by bringing her knee up to her groin. She said before he left he said to her if she told anybody she would be dead.’
The second assault happened outside when Hannah approached the woman from behind and grabbed her breast and private parts.
Mr Achurch said: ‘A witness later spoke of the way the defendant is known as “Dirty Dave” and that perhaps speaks volumes.
‘He was arrested and said to the police, “Are you supposed to ask permission these days?” he did not simply understand what the ramifications were.
‘He also said, “If you don’t try it on with someone they will think you’re gay.”‘
Hannah, of Gorman Close in Newbold, Chesterfield, pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual assault against the woman.
In a victim impact statement the woman said after it happened she did not want to take care of her appearance ‘so she would feel she was unattractive’.
Mr Achurch said: ‘She said to the police quite candidly that if she saw the defendant and had a knife in her hand she would consider using it.’
Will Bennett, Hannah’s barrister, said: ‘His views are that of a dinosaur but that does not excuse his actions.’
Hannah was handed a two-year prison term, suspended for two years.
As part of the suspended sentence order Hannah was ordered to attend 45 rehabilitation sessions and placed him on the sex offenders’ register for 10 years.
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