Former Gogglebox star Andrew Bennett has been jailed for a intercourse assault on a teenage boy.
The 47-year-old subjected the teenager to an assault after cornering him at a home.
He was left "in tears" and struggling flashbacks, the Mirror experiences.
Bennett, who featured within the twelfth collection of Gogglebox, had taken 'selfies' with the sufferer earlier than cornering him on a settee and shoving his palms down his pants, giving him a hickey, and even trying to lure him right into a bed room for a intercourse act.
The Sunderland native denied all prices at first and blamed his behaviour on 'slimming medicine'.
He later admitted one cost of inflicting or inciting a baby to interact in sexual exercise and two of sexual exercise with a baby after DNA related him to the teenage boy.
Choose Tim Gittins has sentenced him to 29 months in jail, with Bennett now having to signal the intercourse offenders registers in addition to abide by a sexual hurt prevention order for a decade.
Choose Gittins advised the intercourse offender: "You sought accountable slimming medicine on your behaviour. I acknowledge this was an aberration in your behaviour, it was unplanned and solely occurred since you have been intoxicated."
The prosecutor, Glenn Gatland, advised the court docket that the previous Gogglebox star was ingesting and requested the boy if he and his girlfriend had had intercourse earlier than placing his palms down his pants.
"He began saying he was homosexual and was asking (the complainant) if he was homosexual," Gatland defined. "The complainant mentioned he was not homosexual.
"The defendant began to place his palms down his pants once more then advised him to show away from him and began kissing him on the again of his neck and gave him a lovebite."
The court docket heard Bennett then advised the sufferer "if he was straight he would inform him he did not need him touching his penis".
The teenage boy advised the disgraced star that he was a baby and advised him to 'cease', nonetheless, the court docket heard that Bennett nonetheless continued to pursue him.
After Bennett requested if the teenager needed to right into a bed room for a intercourse act, the teenager left the home "in tears".
Bennett was arrested and advised the police that it was the slimming help that made him act that manner.
The sufferer has been left with "flashbacks" and added: "I'm making an attempt to be optimistic and transfer on, nonetheless, I do suppose it will take a while."
Gavid Doig was defending Bennett.
He mentioned the star "couldn't be extra remorseful" for his actions.
CPS North East's Andrew Jones mentioned: "Andrew Bennett compelled himself upon his younger sufferer, touching him inappropriately earlier than trying to incite him into additional sexual acts."
Jones defined that the teenage boy advised his household of the incident the subsequent day and so they contacted the police.
"Throughout his first interview with police Bennett denied having touched his sufferer, claiming solely to have spoken to the boy on the time of the alleged assaults, however then claimed that his behaviour had been affected by slimming tablets when additional bodily proof was proven to him," Jones continued.
"The Crown Prosecution Service has labored intently with police, piecing collectively forensic proof and witness testimony to construct a strong case, which has been instrumental in securing responsible pleas to all prices in opposition to the defendant."
He added: "Andrew Bennett carried out these assaults in a egocentric pursuit of his personal sexual gratification and the affect on this boy has been important. We sincerely hope that the sentence handed as we speak supplies some measure of consolation to him."
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