Pensioner, 82, rugby tackled to the ground and groped by man, 29

A man has been jailed for sexually assaulting a pensioner after rugby tackling her to the ground.

Greg Laird, 29, admitted groping the 82-year-old woman while she was walking on her own through Bletchley, Buckinghamshire.

Prosecutor Sandra Beck said the pensioner punched him to get him off her.

Miss Beck said: ‘There was no real reaction to her actions as she made pleas to the man and was screaming and crying, telling him “I’m 82 I’m 82, I don’t want this, get off me”.’

He put his hand under her bra and groped her breasts while performing a sex act on himself.

The attack ended when the pensioner ‘grabbed hold of his penis hard to stop him doing what he was doing.’

In her victim impact statement she said: Before this happened I was an outgoing lady who would get on the bus to go shopping and wouldn’t worry about anything.

‘I had not been scared to go about my daily business. Since this happened, I am so afraid to go shopping alone, I refuse to get off at that bus stop. I have to get off at a later one and walk the long way around.

‘I get scared in my house and I have to lock myself in even in the daylight.

‘Recently I walked to the doctors and got frightened someone was behind me, even though it was my own shadow.

‘I felt scared and am scared of my own shadow now.’

He also admitted putting his genitals through a woman’s door while it was on a chain at her home.

Jailing him for four years and two months, judge Francis Sheridan said: ‘The elderly are entitled to protection from court, the same as the very young because they are vulnerable – although fair play to her she did give you a good punch in the face.

‘Her fighting you off allowed police to get a swab which led to identifying you with DNA and I fully congratulate her on it.

‘You took her to the ground. How wicked for a man of your age to do that to a lady of her age.’