A CCTV engineer has been jailed for 18 months for sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy he targeted after seeing him at a gym.

Nigel Delaney, 61, offered the teenager a job and then £20, asking him: “What would you do for money?” Bradford Crown Court heard yesterday.

He was convicted by a jury of sexual assault and breach of a Sexual Offences Prevention Order imposed in 2009 for harassing a boy of 14. Prosecutor Gerald Hendron said the 15-year-old boy was approached at a gym by Delaney.

When the youngster accompanied him to a closed pub where he was working to repair the CCTV equipment, Delaney, formerly of Emsley Close, Bierley, Bradford, twice touched his thigh. He showed him rude texts and made inappropriate suggestions.

Mr Hendron said the boy’s father looked on the internet and found out that Delaney was the subject of the Sexual Offences Prevention Order. He alerted the police.

Delaney’s barrister, Jayne Beckett, said he did not get very far with his sexual advances towards the boy.

The Recorder of Bradford, Judge Roger Thomas QC, said the Sexual Offences Prevention Order was imposed for “a strikingly similar” offence when Delaney showed an interest in a boy of 14.

The judge made a new Sexual Offences Prevention Order barring Delaney from any contact with his victim and prohibiting him from having unsupervised contact with anyone under 18.