A perverted pensioner dubbed ‘Dirty Dave’ by locals has avoided jail after two disgusting sex assaults on a woman.
Police reported the 71-year-old asked them “are you supposed to ask permission these days” when questioned by cops after he tried to force himself on the woman.
Pensioner David Hannah also said: “If you don’t try it on with someone they will think you are gay” in his post-arrest interview with Derbyshire police.
Hannah received a two year suspended sentence, with a judge at Derby Crown Court telling him he had “a caveman attitude to consent and boundaries”. Even the perv’s own barrister said his client’s views were “like a dinosaur”.
Handing the defendant a two-year prison term, suspended for two years, Recorder Adrian Reynolds said: “If you do this to another woman in the next two years you will be going to prison."
Mark Achurch, prosecuting, said the two incidents took place in 2019 but the woman did not report them until the summer of 2021.
He said on the first occasion Hannah went to her address and molested the woman. Mr Achurch told the court: "She said before he left he said to her if she told anybody she would be dead.”
Mr Achurch said the second assault happened outside when Hannah approached the woman from behind and indecently assaulted her.
He said: “A witness later spoke of the way the defendant is known as 'Dirty Dave' and that perhaps speaks volumes. He was arrested and said to the police ‘are you supposed to ask permission these days?’ he did not simply understand what the ramifications were.
“He also said ‘if you don’t try it on with someone they will think you’re gay’.”
Hannah, of Gorman Close, Newbold, Chesterfield, pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual assault against the woman, whose identity is protected by law. He has no previous convictions.
In a victim impact statement, the woman told how after it happened she did not want to take care of her appearance “so she would feel she was unattractive”.
Mr Achurch said: “She said to the police quite candidly that if she saw the defendant and had a knife in her hand she would consider using it.”
Will Bennett, his barrister, said: “His views are that of a dinosaur but that does not excuse his actions.”
As part of the suspended sentence order, Recorder Reynolds ordered the defendant to attend 45 rehabilitation sessions and placed him on the sex offender register for 10 years.
Sentencing him the judge said: “Don’t think just because you are 71 you are too old to think you can behave in this way and in many ways, I think the most significant piece of evidence in this case is when you told the victim ‘if you tell anyone you will be dead’ because you knew perfectly well what you were doing was wrong.
“This woman was not consenting and you disregarded that."
