A man has been jailed after he breached an anti-social behaviour order banning him from pestering women.

Steven Carr was also under a community order when he sexually assaulted two girls in Huddersfield and made sexual remarks to a pensioner in the library.

Leeds Crown Court heard today the ASBO prohibiting him from “approaching, annoying, harassing or pestering any female in circumstances which are sexual” was imposed at the court on August 9 last year along with the three year community order.

That followed his conviction for two earlier sexual assaults where he followed two girls into McDonald’s in Huddersfield in June and sat next to one before stroking her on the neck and back saying he wanted to kiss her.

He also told her he wanted to have sex with her and would wait in a park. She reported him to the police. A few days later he told another girl in St George’s Square that she was beautiful and wanted to kiss her.

Charlotte Eastwood, prosecuting, said in the latest offences on May 9 this year an 18-year-old girl and her friends were approached by Carr who was clearly intoxicated at the corner of Cross Church Street in Huddersfield town centre.

He spoke to them for a while but the complainant thought he was a bit scary. He then asked her if she had boyfriend telling her: “You’ve got a really nice body” and asking to touch her.

When she moved away he took hold of her skirt but she managed to move further back and her friends told him to go away. He stumbled off in the direction of Queen Street.

Miss Eastwood said on July 28 Carr breached the ASBO when he spoke to a 74-year-old woman in Huddersfield Library, telling her he liked people of the opposite sex and needed someone to talk to.

He said: “I haven’t had sex for two years” and when he saw she had a wedding ring on asked how often she had sex with her husband. Some other women approached to speak to her and he left but she said the whole conversation made her feel very uncomfortable.

On August 7 Carr approached a 15-year-old girl at the Huddersfield Food and Drink Festival. She was sitting on a wall with a friend when he sat next to her telling her she was beautiful and asking if he could stroke her hand

She told him ‘no’ but he put his hand on her hand and stroked it up and down. She moved her hand away and shuffled away from him saying she felt “sick and uneasy.”

Adam Birkby, representing Carr, said the offences, although very upsetting for the complainants, were not of the more serious type of sexual assault.

His principal problem was alcoholism.

Mr Birkby said “he leads a chaotic life” but recently had managed to cut down his drinking with the support of others and had not been in trouble since August.

Carr, 44 of Lea Head Birkby, admitted two sexual assaults and three breaches of the ASBO. He was jailed for a total of 39 weeks and ordered to register as a sex offender for seven years.

Judge Neil Clark said he accepted he had an addiction to alcohol and “your life does not follow a regular pattern” committing the offences when in drink.

He added: “But there comes a time with your record when we cannot continue to impose community penalties.”