A 20-year-old man who sexually assaulted two girls was told by a judge he had “a stupid, arrogant and unpleasant” attitude to women.

Akif Askar approached the 15-year-olds in the street and indecently assaulted them, Bradford Crown Court heard today.

His probation officer branded his behaviour predatory and without remorse for his victims.

Askar pleaded guilty to three offences of sexual assault – two against the same girl.

Prosecutor Emma Downing said Askar first struck between December last year and January. He approached a girl walking from school to a mosque in Bradford’s Lidget Green area.

Askar said “Excuse me” and indecently assaulted her, Miss Downing said.

The court heard he approached her again on January 8 and again indecently assaulted her.

On January 29, Askar targeted a second girl, indecently assaulting her.

Miss Downing said the girls were angry and upset.

Askar, who had no previous convictions, was arrested on February 1 and owned up to one sexual assault.

The court heard he was cautioned earlier this month for failing to sign on the sex offenders’ register after pleading guilty to all three offences at a previous court hearing.

Askar’s solicitor advocate, Phillip Ainge, said his client now accepted this was not the right way to make contact with girls.

Askar, who lived in Bradford at the time, was now staying in Leyton, London, with relatives, Mr Ainge said.

Judge Jonathan Durham Hall QC sentenced Askar to a two-year community order with supervision and 150 hours’ unpaid work.

“You have to learn that this society will not tolerate this sort of bad behaviour,” the judge told him.