An intoxicated Burnley Sex Offender, Anthony Brocklesby, disrobed and sexually abused a woman during a drinking session with her and her sister.
Anthony Brocklesby informed the woman that “all she required was the appropriate man,” and as her sister dozed off in the front room, he seized her and restrained her on the settee.
Burnley Crown Court heard how Anthony Brocklesby began groping the woman, and Francis McEntee, prosecuting, said she described a struggle, before the defendant grabbed her by the neck.
Mr McEntee said: “Anthony Brocklesby slipped his hands into her knickers before moving them up her body, underneath her top and into her bra.
“She managed to get him off her and went to bed, but the defendant came into the bedroom wearing no top, with his pants round his ankles.
“Anthony Brocklesby tried to grope her again and touched her breasts.
“Her sister, who had woken up, then came into the room and asked what was going on, to which he replied, ‘What does it look like’?”
Anthony Brocklesby also broke a glass top on the cooker in the house’s kitchen.
Mr McEntee said he was confronted by what he did the following morning but couldn’t remember anything, and the matter was reported to the police.
Three days later, on April 29, he made threats to the woman and her sister, telling them, “You shouldn’t have made the report” he also said, “If you don’t retract, you won’t see your family again, and you will pay”.
Trying his luck, Paul Cummings, in mitigation, said it was “wholly out of character” for his client and all of this was borne out of alcohol dependency.
Anthony Brocklesby, 31, of Mitre Street, Burnley, pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual assault by touching, witness intimidation and criminal damage.
Anthony Brocklesby was jailed for 12 months, given a five-year restraining order and placed on the sex offender’s register for 10 years.
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