Sex-attack cyclist jailed for more than 3 years
MAN CARRIED OUT 22 ASSAULTS ACROSS CITY IN ‘CAMPAIGN AGAINST LONE WOMEN’:
A CYCLIST who carried out 22 sex attacks across Derby has been jailed for three years and nine months.
Derby Crown Court heard how 36-year-old Csaba Kiss committed the sexual assaults on 21 different women – mainly in the city centre – between July 29 and November 4.
On each occasion, Kiss, of St Chads Road, Normanton, followed his victims slowly on his bicycle before grabbing or touching them sexually and then riding off.
One of the women, aged 19, even became a victim twice during what prosecutor Sarah Knight called “a campaign against lone women”.
She said that, during the 13-week reign of attacks, Kiss twice travelled home to see his wife and daughter in his home country of Hungary.
Reading out the details of each of the 22 counts, Miss Knight explained the impact on the women.
She said: “They were upset, angry, anxious and, in some cases, were left crying. One of the victim said what happened to her left her feeling ‘horrible and seriously frightened.’ The youngest victim was just 13.”
Miss Knight said the first sexual assault happened against a 17-year-old in Osmaston Road on July 29.
She said: “She was alone and the
defendant cycled up behind her, grabbed her to the bottom then cycled away. The cycling away was to be a prevalent way he would operate throughout the offences.”
The hearing was told how Kiss moved to the UK from his native country of Hungary in 2016.
Kiss, who pleaded guilty to 22 counts of sexual assault, wrote a letter to Judge Shant which was read out by his interpreter from the dock.
In it, he asked if he could be assessed
by a psychiatrist to find out a reason why he carried out the attack.
He said: “I must give an explanation to myself, my family and the court to what prompted me to commit these offences because this is not who I am.
“I have been in this country for two years, I have a fiancee and two children back in Hungary. She knows what I have done and I am ashamed but I accept responsibility.
“I came to England for a better life and I don’t know what I did this. I had a
compulsion, I had to touch them, I just wanted to touch their bottoms.
“Unfortunately, there is a minor involved in one of the offences but I did not know this as I approached her from behind. I very much regret it.”
Raglan Ashton, for Kiss, said his client was at a loss as to why he did what he did.
He said: “He is asking himself why an otherwise loving partner and father would engage in such inappropriate and wholly unacceptable behaviour.”