A convicted rapist who exposed himself repeatedly to women at bus stops in south London was branded a “very dangerous man” as he was locked up for three years.
Leslie Malcolm, 57, carried out a campaign of flashing offences between December 2019 and May this year, often making eye contact with his victims while touching himself.
Inner London crown court heard today that Malcolm has two previous convictions for rape, including a 1996 attack on a woman at a bus stop.
“This is a very dangerous man in my view”, said Recorder Stuart Trimmer QC, sentencing Malcolm to 36 months in prison.
“This defendant has been convicted twice of the offence of rape, and at the time of these offences he was on licence.
“The offences are those that distress women, they distress all sorts of people, in particular those he targeted.
“It seems he was targeting particular individuals, he chose – as he has chosen before when he committed an offence of rape in 1996 – to approach women at bus stops.
“That appears to be something plainly fixed in his mind.”
Malcolm targeted his victims in Brixton, as they waited near to KFC, H&M, and the Prince of Wales pub.
When he was caught by officers from the Met’s Roads and Transport Policing Command on June 1, he told them: “You know, it’s not like I weren’t expecting you.”
The judge said Malcolm must be sentenced for the offences he committed rather than “what he might have done”, but urged the probation service to watch him when he is freed from prison.
“Given his last previous conviction and the circumstances of these offences, it would be a very brave licensing supervising officer that released him unsupervised into the community”, he said.
The judge added that he believed it was important details of the case were made public through the media.
Detective Sergeant Okikiola Okunola said: “I would firstly like to thank each victim for reporting Malcolm’s quite frankly disgusting and perverse behaviour to police. Because of them and the support they’ve have shown the investigation, we were able to bring Malcolm to justice.
“Thanks to some of the victims’ evidence as well as the forensic evidence left at one scene by Malcolm, he had no choice but to plead guilty to the eight offences.”
Malcolm, from Catford, pleaded guilty to outraging public decency and seven counts of exposure.
