Extra jail time for serial sex pest after assault

A serial sex pest has been jailed for 100 days for attacking a prison officer at Perth’s Edinburgh Road jail.

Forty-nine-year-old Robert Basterfield, described as a prisoner at Perth, admitted seizing and pulling Kerrie Illand’s hair on June 23, 2020.

The time behind bars was ordered to run from December 18.

Basterfield, of Riggs Road, was jailed for 21 months last year for sending a graphic picture of himself to a woman who previously worked with people suffering from social exclusion.

He also had an 18-month Non-Harrassment Order put in place, prohibiting him from approaching, contacting or communicating with the female.

Last September, he was given 54 weeks behind bars for making a lewd drawing and showing it to two female prison officers at the Perth jail.

In 2007, he became the first person to be banned from being alone with any female when a Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO) was imposed.

A second SOPO was subsequently imposed last year on the Perth pervert to “effectively manage him - and the risk he poses to the community.”

The former taxi driver previously served a 2006 jail term which related to him stalking a rugby club barmaid.

He was also handed down a three-month term in January, 2020, after flooding his prison cell, causing hundreds of pounds worth of damage, because he couldn’t contact his dying mother in Australia.

Basterfield also admitted maliciously damaging worktops, along with wall and base units at cell C2/19 at the Edinburgh Road jail on June 26, 2019.

He also broke a toilet seat and blocked the toilet, causing water to flood the cell floor.