An asylum-seeking sex predator was jailed for two years for indecently assaulting two women.

Farid Boudra, of Magdalen Road, Oxford, admitted two charges of indecent assault and one of indecent exposure.

Basil Hillman, prosecuting, told Oxford Crown Court that Boudra pounced on a woman walking in Rose Hill on a January afternoon and asked if she was pregnant.

After she told him she was not, he said: "I will give you babies". Holding her tightly, he kissed and touched her. He then ran away before turning to expose himself to her.

The court heard Boudra, 34, had also performed an indecent act in front of a 17-year-old boy who was walking home from school in Cowley.The victim told police he felt angry and violated.

Four days later, he app- roached a 14-year-old girl, also walking home from school, near the Redbridge car park. He kissed her and put his hand up her skirt, before exposing himself.

Peter Wilson, defending, said Boudra suffered from a nervous disposition and was isolated and lonely. "He thinks females are more approachable in this country than in Algeria but cannot provide any reason for exposing himself to the youth," he said.

Judge Mary Mowat told Boudra he would be on licence for three years after serving half his two-year sentence and he would go on the Sex Offenders register for ten years. Earlier, a jury cleared Boudra of kidnapping a 20-year-old woman in Cowley Road in June, accepting his defence that he had been wrongly identified as her attacker.

The jury sat in silence as Boudra admitted his other offending after he was acquitted. The judge told him: "Reports express concern about your behaviour and the risk to the public you present and the danger of your re-offending."You committed serious indecent assaults on defenceless women."

Story date: Saturday 06 November

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