A 35-YEAR-OLD man indecently assaulted a Blackburn town centre shop assistant at work.

Blackburn magistrates heard a woman who witnessed the incident recognised Yusuf Makda as the man involved in an incident with her granddaughter shortly before.

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Inquiries revealed he had indecently assaulted another shop worker in between those offences.

And Catherine Allan, prosecuting, said Makda had been jailed for 20 weeks in 2012 for a series of random sexual assaults on total strangers.

Makda, of Higher Eanam, Blackburn, pleaded guilty to using threatening behaviour and two sexual assaults. He was sent in custody to Preston Crown Court to be sentenced.

Following the conviction in 2012 Makda had been made subject to a Sexual Offences Prevention order and put on the sex offenders’ register.

The threatening behaviour involved Makda trying to shake hands with a shop assistant and pulling her towards him. She had pulled away and walked off and he then moved over to the young woman who was with her grandmother. He shook her hand, pulled her towards him and kissed her on the hand before puckering up his lips and trying to kiss on the lips. A member of staff screamed at him, which made him stop.

Shortly after he was in another shop and was smiling at a shop assistant who described him as ‘creepy’.

He shook her right hand and kissed it. He then put an arm around her shoulder, pulled her towards him , kissed her and indecently assaulted her.

“In broad daylight, in a busy shopping area, he has assaulted two ladies and used inappropriate behaviour towards another,” said Miss Allan.

Peter King, defending, said Saturday’s offences were obviously concerning.