A flasher who shocked and distressed two women and a girl has been warned by a judge he faces a jail sentence if he breaches an order to seek treatment.

Richard Sugden, 26, was also told that further allegations of indecent exposure, not proceeded with by the prosecution, could be “resurrected” if he fails to comply with a three year community order imposed at Bradford Crown Court yesterday.

Sugden, of Heaton Avenue, Keighley, pleaded guilty on the day of his trial last month to two offences.

Three similar charges were left on his file after the Crown decided to accept the admissions.

Prosecutor Michael Greenhalgh told the court the first offence was in the car park at Holmewood Nursing Home, Fell Lane, Keighley, at 4pm on January 2, 2010.

A female student and her 12-year-old sister saw the defendant sitting in his car.

He offered money to the girl in exchange for a sex act, pulled down his trousers and exposed himself.

Sugden struck again ten days later as a woman in her 30s waited by the roadside in Riddlesden for a lift to work at 8.10am.

He pulled up in his car and waved her over.

She went over to help him, thinking he needed directions, Mr Greenhalgh said.

Sugden, who had no trousers on, suggested she commit a sex act on him.

The woman told him to go away, noting the full registration of his Rover car as he drove off.

Sugden’s barrister, Richard Gioserano, said the probation service was willing to help him seek treatment.

Judge Jonathan Rose ordered Sugden to attend the sex offender treatment programme as part of the community order.

He must also obey a three month curfew order and register as a sex offender for five years.

The judge made a Sexual Offences Prevention Order banning Sugden from approaching his victims.

Judge Rose told him: “I am extremely concerned about the threat that you pose to young women.”

The judge said Sugden’s victims must have been shocked and upset by his disgraceful behaviour but ordering him to seek treatment was the best way to protect the public in the future.

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