A RACING driver has avoided jail after sexually assaulting a teenage girl in Didcot.

Peter Jones, 22, forced a 14-year-old girl's hands onto his erect penis whilst they were on a park bench on December 3, 2021.

The banger racer, who was 19 years old at the time, had also been charged with oral rape but after two trials, both juries were unable to reach a verdict and the Crown Prosecution Service decided to offer no evidence.

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Jones, of Furlong Close, Oxford, was sentenced at Oxford Crown Court on Friday (August 23) to 18 months imprisonment, suspended for two years.

Sentencing, Judge Maria Lamb said: “I’m not going to indulge in any speculation about why two juries were unable to reach verdicts for oral rape.

“She had, in my view, been pestered by you for sexual images. It is a fact she had been pulled towards you by you grabbing her hands and placing them on your penis.

“No sentence this court passes can ever compensate her for what she experienced that night.”

During the sentencing, a victim impact statement written by the girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was read out by prosecutor Charles Ward-Jackson.

It read: “As a child and teenager, I suffered traumas on all aspects of my life due to the assault Peter Jones committed.

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“He’s taken a lot from me that cannot be returned. I lost my childhood and joy and the goals I wanted to achieved.

“I now suffered from mental health issues. I have difficulty accepting kindness from anyone. [Jones] took my kindness and trust for granted.

“I still have nightmares. I felt like my whole life was crumbling. Hopefully, Jones has learnt from his evil acts.

“He’s never taken any accountability, my only hope is that one day he will. I will never have my childhood back or my innocence because of what happened.”

Defending Jones, his barrister said that her client was only 19 years of age at the time ‘so there was a level of immaturity involved’.

He has also been diagnosed with autism and ADHD. He was also known the social services when he was 15-years-old due to ‘emotional neglect’.

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She said he was ‘vulnerable to exploitation and bullying’ if he was to be remanded into a custodial setting.

Jones was also fined £500 and ordered to complete six months of drug rehabilitation, 30 sessions of an accredited programme, and five rehabilitation days.

He was also made subject to electronic monitoring and a Sexual Harm Prevention Order.