Plymouth prostitute groped male taxi driver rather than pay fareApril 11, 2016
Source: The HeraldA WOMAN indecently touched a male taxi driver at the wheel after he refused to have sex in payment of her fare, a court heard.
Prolific offender Gemma Pinkerton, aged 25, told the man she was a prostitute and groped him over his clothing 20 or 30 times.
She then tried to blackmail him by claiming she would report him for sexual assault, Plymouth Crown Court heard.
Homeless Pinkerton, who was on a cocktail of drink and drugs, then assaulted him and damaged his car before he threw her from the vehicle.
Jailing her for a total of 30 months, Judge Ian Lawrie said she had blackmailed the driver for the sake of the total £26.50.
He added: “You persisted by one means or another to try and get a free lift home. You kissed him and offered him sex and went to the extraordinary lengths of groping him.
“There comes a time when enough is enough and you need to be punished.”
Pinkerton pleaded guilty to sexual assault, common assault, causing criminal damage and making off without payment on July 29 last year.
The court heard she has 36 convictions for 64 offences.
Mike Brown, for the Crown Prosecution Service, said that Pinkerton ordered a taxi to take her from Waterloo Yard Flats in Stoke to Derriford Hospital.
He added that she told the driver she was a prostitute during the journey.
Mr Brown said that the man asked for a £10 fare but agreed to wait when she said she would only be a few minutes.
He added that she returned 25 minutes later.
Mr Brown said Pinkerton sat in the front passenger seat and kissed him on the cheek, offering him sexual services for £40 or £50.
Mr Brown added the man refused but she began touching him indecently, with him telling her to stop and batting her hand away as he drove.
Pinkerton refused to pay the fare once they returned to Stoke.
Mr Brown said she slapped him across the face and damaged a console in the car.
He added she threatened to report the driver for sexually assaulting her and then said she would “get the boys around” if he called the police.
Mr Brown said the driver eventually pushed her from the vehicle and drove away with the door still open.
He read a statement from the man which said he had been left “stressed” and “shocked” by the incident.
Nicholas Bradley, for Pinkerton, said she could not recall everything which happened because of a mix of drugs and alcohol.
He added that she had shown remorse and that perhaps she was at a “pivot point” where she could start to tackle her offending.
Pinkerton was caught having sex with a man in Devonport Park last year.
Shocked onlookers including a six-year-old child saw the couple having sexual intercourse.
Pinkerton was handed a suspended prison sentence in September for outraging public decency.
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