Assistant manager groped petrified female staff and followed one woman around

did and sometimes she didn’t.” He was sacked following an investigation.

Giving evidence, a woman who worked at a Farmfoods told how assistant manager Docherty pulled her around by her bra.

The woman said he grabbed her bra on a few occasions and in one incident it became unfastened. She told a colleague, who alerted a manager.

The witness added: “A manager from another Farmfoods came in. Andrew left that day.”

First offender Docherty declined to comment as he left court.

His father, John Docherty, who has represented East Neuk & Landward on Fife Council for five years, had been in the public gallery for much of the trial. He was often seen making notes as witnesses gave evidence. Leaving court with his son, he also declined to comment.

Docherty was convicted of sex assaults on a Home Bargains worker, pinching her bottom and handling her chest. He also pushed her head towards his genitals, causing her face to touch them, and made sexual remarks to her.

The jury found him guilty of a sex assault on another Home Bargains colleague by seizing her head, pushing it towards his genitals, and making a sexual remark to her.

He was convicted of a sex assault on a third store employee by placing his hand inside her clothing and handling her chest, and making derogatory remarks to another.

Docherty was also found guilty of conducting himself in a disorderly manner in Morrisons by following an employee round the store and preventing her from leaving.

The jury convicted him of sex assaults at another Morrisons store, making sexual comments to a woman worker, slapping her bottom and placing his hands on her body.

They also found him guilty of sex assaults on a Farmfoods worker, placing his hands inside her clothing, pulling her bra strap, and once unfastening her bra.

The offences took place between 2007 and 2015.

Originally facing 18 charges, Docherty was convicted of six while five were not proven and one not guilty verdict was returned. The others were dropped by the Crown.