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FOOT FETISH PERV GRABBED LADY COP’S BOOT
A SEXUAL predator with a foot fetish who grabbed an off- duty female police officer’s boot on a train has avoided jail.
Paul Chigbu, 51, has spent years playing out his fantasies by fondling women’s footwear.
He was under an order banning him from touching any part of a woman or their clothing in public following a series of sex offences when he attacked the officer on November 4 last year.
Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard Chigbu approached the officer on the Epsom Downs train in West Croydon station and grabbed her knee high black leather boot.
She was taking a train from West Croydon station when she became aware of Chigbu.
He said something that she couldn’t make out as she was wearing headphones.
When she looked up he had moved closer and he then grabbed her right boot while leering at her.
The officer shouted: “What the f** k do you think you are doing? Get off!” and he let go.
Magistrate Sandra Graham told Chigbu: “We feel that this is so serious that only a custodial sentence is appropriate.
“However we do feel that you haven’t been given the chance to have rehabilitation.
“We are therefore going to give BODY ARTS: Girls do their verbal stuff in the buff EDINBURGH. Capital of Scotland. Birthplace of the British Enlightenment and home to Rose Street – possibly the best place to get pissed in the world.
The city is also home to the world’s most famous arts festival, which attracts arty oddballs from all over.
But there was nothing odd about a group of uni students from Edinburgh stripping off and reciting POETRY at a secret venue in the city last week.
Organiser Mel Tokes laughed: “It was not a lesbian thing, just some poetry lovers getting together to recite modern verse without the constraint of clothes.
“It allowed us to free our minds.”
The girls plan to hold another event soon – but the venue will again be kept secret “to avoid the attentions of perverts and gawpers”.
One gawper spat: “Bah!” you a two- year suspended sentence of 26 weeks.”
When he was arrested Chigbu repeatedly claimed that he was just trying to pick up a blue travel card holder full of expired tickets that he had dropped.
He has been sentenced a total of 49 times for 79 offences, eight of which were of a sexual nature.
In December 2003 he walked up and spanked a woman on the bottom while visiting a relative in hospital.
Chigbu, of Bermondsey, was convicted of breaching a sexual offences order, was also ordered to attend an activity requirement for 45 days and must pay £ 115 in costs. RHYME & TEASIN’: Students are chest red- hot poets WALKED FREE: Paul Chigbu