Supermarket sex pest handed fresh jail sentence for assaulting ex outside court
Creep changes plea to guilty at the last minute
Gary Minford attacked victim Elaine Wilson as she sat in her car outside a courthouse
A sex pest who assaulted his former partner outside a courthouse has been handed a two-month sentence.
Gary Minford was due to contest the allegation, but defence counsel Grant Powles told Ballymena Magistrates Court the 39-year-old was instead admitting his guilt.
Minford attacked victim Elaine Wilson as she sat in her car outside the courthouse on February 4.
As the mum-of-four recorded him on her phone, he ran to the vehicle, shouting obscenities.
Gary Minford attacked victim Elaine Wilson as she sat in her car outside a courthouse
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Minford said he was pleading guilty because he may have made contact with her hand while trying to grab the phone.
With his client already serving a sentence for a previous incident, Mr Powles asked that the new sentence be allowed to run concurrently.
District Judge Natasha Fitzsimmons agreed, sentenced Minford to two years in prison and handed him a one-year restraining order.
She said while the assault 'may not be as serious as other assaults that come before the court, it is aggravated by domestic abuse'.
What the court did not hear was that on the day of the incident, Wilson (37) had been acquitted of assault.
But in another case last month she was handed a six month-prison sentence, suspended for three years, and a three-year restraining order for actual bodily harm and using threatening behaviour.
The victim was in her home when she dragged her downstairs and struck her to the head with a pint glass.
Earlier this month, Minford, from Bush Park in Antrim, was handed a four month sentence for sexually assaulting a supermarket worker.
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