Hi deffinately remeber this. The story was that he was a meter reader. On his daily round he went to a home where a Mum and her 4-6 year old daughter was in her bedroom. The Mum told the guy the meter was in the girls bedroom. When he went to read the meter the mother popped out the room for a sec. That's when he struck.
After the guy left the little girl went up to her mum and said to her "Why did the man touch me". She then called the police and the story broke out.
I remember reports calling him an apportunistic offender and that he had previous for such offenses. He was given a 2 year jail term.
As here, the issue was raised about what checks companies do when they hire staff who have previous sex crime convictions.
Now when I home in on finding the article it seems that results are removed from google by ChillingEffects.org. This only happens when I specifically search for the crime using British Gas in the search critera.
I don't get at all. I know I saw the news cover it. Sky news and the papers. It's even caused me to go searching news archives and I have since 20 minutes ago signed up to
http://www.ukpressonline.co.uk/ukpre...open/index.jsp. I picked their 10 day account.
I'm searching at the moment but when I get results matching the year and the critera the page doesn't show.
I've called a few people also to ask if they remember it and they remeber it also.
I'm going to keep looking though.
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I found it.
http://archive.echo-news.co.uk/2004/8/20/126625.html