A MAN who breached a sex offender order when he moved from a tent into a house without notifying the police has been jailed for four months.

Richard Walpole, 40, was ordered to sign on the sex offender register for five years for sexually assaulting a woman outside Morrisons supermarket in Skipton in 2013.

He took hold of her and kissed her on the neck, leaving her upset, crying and shaking.

Walpole, then of Clifford Court, Skipton, was drunk and carrying a two litre bottle of cider.

He appeared before Bradford Crown Court yesterday on a video link to Leeds Prison when he pleaded guilty to moving from a tent in Skipton to a house in Keighley without telling the police.

The offence put him in breach of a four month suspended sentence for burgling a householder’s garage.

Walpole’s advocate, Tom Rushbrooke, said his client was homeless and had been in custody for three weeks.

Walpole himself told the judge: “It has just been a series of catastrophes.”

He said he was was terminally ill and had lived in the tent for two months.

He was now off the crack, heroin and drink and wanted to make a fresh start.

Walpole was imprisoned for a total of four months for both offences.