Man's 'disgusting behaviour' in Worksop shops leads to prison sentence

A man who made sexual comments to women, racially abused a shop manager and made 'tongue gestures' to another woman, has been locked up. Darron Bowles made repeated inappropriate comments to shop workers in Worksop between August 30 and September 8.

The 51-year-old was arrested by police, who said they had received reports of lewd and aggressive behaviour, in Worksop on September 10. Bowles was abusive to police after his arrest before spitting at one and then urinating in his cell.

He was subsequently charged with a string of offences and pleaded guilty to four counts of using threatening, abusive, or insulting words or behaviour, and further counts of racially aggravated public order, criminal damage, and assault by beating of an emergency worker. Bowles, who was also found in breach of a suspended sentence order, was jailed for seven months and two weeks when he appeared at Nottingham Magistrates’ Court for sentencing on Thursday (September 12).

PC Kerry Eames, of Nottinghamshire Police, said: “Bowles’ persistent disgusting behaviour caused significant distress and alarm to innocent women just going about their normal working days. They were also made to feel threatened and intimidated by his torrent of verbal abuse and highly inappropriate sexualised gestures.

“No-one deserves to be treated in this way and we simply will not tolerate this sort of vile and offensive behaviour in our communities."