Women and girl, 13, targeted in sex offender's two day campaign of attacks
A sex offender who targeted four women and a 13-year-old girl during a two day campaign of assaults on Wolverhampton streets has been locked up for two and a half years.
John Knapp struck when the women were going to or from work while the teenager was delivering papers, the city's Crown Court heard.
The 24-year-old inappropriately touched his first victim after walking behind her on Bilston Road on the outskirts of the city centre on September 25.
Police were called and he was warned by the officers and told to leave the area.
But on October 5 he launched a similar attack on another woman as she walked across Sainsbury's car park in the city and shortly afterwards exposed himself to a third woman who managed to get into her parked car and lock it before he reached the vehicle after following her into Oxford Street close to the city centre, said Mr John Brotherton, prosecuting.
Later that day he performed a sex act in front of the teenage paper girl in Gower Street, All Saints.
Mr Jasvir Mann, defending, said: "He lived a solitary life that led him to drink heavily which he had been doing before this offending. He did not target anybody in particular."
Knapp from Gower Street admitted three sex assaults, one of exposure and one of engaging in sexual activity in front of a child and was jailed by Judge James Burbidge QC who told him: "This was a catalogue of offending against women going about their lawful business in which you targeted random strangers. You have no mental health issues but display an anti social trait."
