STREET STATUE ACCUSED OF SEX ATTACK
‘ Entertainer’ denies claims he put lollipop down teenage girl’s cleavage
A ‘ street entertainer’ has appeared in court charged with a sex attack on a 15- year- old girl in Ayr town centre.
He has been accused of putting a lollipop down the teenager’s cleavage.
Police were called to his pitch where he’d been standing to attract donations from shoppers to the homeless. Two officers arrested a man and took him away.
A mum of one of a group of girls in the High Street at the time has hit out at the incident.
A man port raying himself as a statue has been accused of putting a lollipop down a 15- year-old girl’ s cleavage.
Police were called to his pitch where he’d been standing to attract donations from shoppers to the homeless.
The statue had been giving out lollipops if people handed over cash.
Two officers arrested a man and took him away from Ayr High Street on Thursday afternoon.
The statue had been standing close to the end of Carrick Street since the morning.
A Romanian man appeared from custody at Ayr Sheriff Court on Friday in connection with the incident.
Manole Sandu Ion, 31, of Tofts Street, Liverpool, was remanded in custody for trial in May after denying the charge via a Romanian interpreter.
He denies sexually assaulting a 15- year- old girl from Ayr by, without her consent, putting “confectionary between her breasts.”
He was further charged with falsely stating to PCs Jamie Cree and Colin Blair he was someone else with intent to conceal his identity.
Meanwhile the mother of one of a group of girls who was in the High Street at the time has hit out at the incident.
And Danielle Cummings said: “My daughter and friends were in town and passed someone who looks like a kids entertainer and he was clearly not.
“It was a guy on stilts in a white suit with a painted white face.
“The girls went over to see what he was doing but he was doing a statue act, with a sign saying he was homeless, so one of the girls threw in 30p.
“He had lollipops.”
The statue was standing outside a disused shop.
One shopper said: “He was being very animated all day, even catching peoples’ eyes from across the road.
“He wasn’t much of a statue though as he kept moving and I saw the Chuppa Cup lollies in his hand.
“At his feet I noticed what looked like a case and a handwritten sign asking for money for the homeless.”