A HEALTH service pest has been jailed for grabbing a medical secretary’s bottom following an attack in which he punched a staff nurse in the face.

Asif Khan was locked up for 15 months at Bradford Crown Court on Monday for molesting the health professional and squeezing another woman’s buttocks as she walked for a bus on Manchester Road in the city.

Khan, 33, of Thorn Drive, Queensbury, Bradford, pleaded guilty to two sexual assaults, on February 21 and May 23.

Prosecutor Nick Askins said Khan had been making a nuisance of himself at the medical centre in Bradford before he sexually assaulted the staff member. He urinated with the toilet door open and, on one occasion, had his trousers round his ankles in the reception area.

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The court heard that he always smelled of alcohol and could be verbally aggressive to staff and patients.

He sexually abused the secretary by squeezing her buttock in a corridor.

When Khan returned to the medical centre the following day, she took a video of him on her phone and sent it to the police.

Khan struck again three months later, targeting a stranger in the street after she had left work.

She noticed him acting in a strange manner, mumbling repeatedly to himself.

The woman tried to move away but she was up against a building and Khan firmly squeezed her left buttock as he passed her.

He was arrested after the police examined CCTV footage from the area. Khan matched the description given by the women and they both picked him out during an identification procedure.

The court heard that Khan was currently serving a three month prison sentence for punching a staff nurse in the face at Airedale Hospital and spitting at a security guard.

He was admitted to the accident and emergency department on a stretcher on May 19 and was said to be under the influence of Class A drugs when he regained consciousness and attacked the nurse.

Khan had 13 previous convictions for 25 offences, including criminal damage, battery, theft, going equipped and threatening behaviour.

In January 2017, he was sentenced to 120 days in prison for threatening behaviour and common assault after he slapped a Bradford nurse round the ear.

Khan’s barrister, Michael Greenhalgh, said: “These were unpleasant offences and he has an unattractive record.”

But Khan had been in custody since the end of May and, before he admitted the offences, a psychiatric report had been commissioned to make sure he was medically fit to plead.

Judge David Hatton QC sentenced Khan to seven and a half months imprisonment for each offence.

He told him: “You have a history of making a nuisance of yourself on National Health Service property and committing assaults there, albeit nothing sexual.”

Khan must sign on the sex offenders register for ten years. He was already subject to a Sexual Harm Prevention Order for the same period of time and a five year Criminal Behaviour Order.