Thursday, 28 March 2024
Massage from hell for 21-year-old woman as convicted bus flasher gets job at parlour and sniffs her

Massage from hell for 21-year-old woman as convicted bus flasher gets job at parlour and sniffs her

A flasher who got a job as a massage therapist faces jail after a court heard how he 'sniffed' a female client.

Rasika Kobbekaduwa got a job as a masseur at the Healing Hands Prana Spa in Camden, north London, despite having a string of previous convictions for sex offences - including several indecent exposures on buses.

The 33-year-old had been jailed for 15 months at Harrow crown court in January 2014 after pleading guilty to exposing himself on London buses five times between November 2012 and July 2013.

He was also put on the Sex Offenders Register and banned from travelling on buses.

The pervert, however, managed to get a job as a massage therapist after being released from prison, Southwark Crown Court was told.

The court heard how Kobbekaduwa, of Harrow, north west London, pulled down the knickers of 21-year-old female client at the spa where he was working last year and asked her to lie on the massage table.

When she lay down, Kobbekaduwa then 'kissed or sniffed her', the court heard - causing the woman to confront him and call 999.

Maureen Flaherty, prosecuting, told the court: "She (the victim) was directed downstairs and was content that the spa appeared to be a professional operation.

"But the masseur (Kobbekaduwa) removed her underwear and either kissed or sniffed her."

The court heard how Kobbekaduwa arrived in the UK from Sri Lanka with his wife in 2011 as an asylum seeker and was a former military police officer in his home country.

Daniel Chadwick, defending, said that Kobbekaduwa's actions were a direct result of his former job as a military policeman, where he was taught to 'humiliate' opponents of the Government regime.

He told the court: "While in Sri Lanka, he was in the employment of the military police in which he was required to deal with opponents of the Sri Lankan government."

He told the court that this 'involved the organised sexual assaults and humiliation of opponents of the regime', adding: "It is that experience that has led to all of the offending."

Judge Michael Gledhill QC told Kobbekaduwa that he was a 'danger to women' after he pleaded guilty to one count of sexual assault.

He said: "This man is a danger to women for the obvious reason that he has committed so many offences on or towards women that I feel he will do it again.

"There is cause for a substantial sentence to keep him out of harm's way for such time as that he is hopefully not the danger that I have identified him as."

Kobbekaduwa will be sentenced on April 26 and was told to expect a lengthy jail term.

(By Stian Alexander - mirror.co.uk)

 

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