Overview
- District Judge Ian Strongman handed 73-year-old Robert May a 27-month suspended prison sentence, ordered £500 compensation and imposed a three-year restraining order after his guilty plea.
- Prosecutors relied on family video and a Ring doorbell clip that showed May masturbating from his flat window on more than 30 occasions and entering the victim’s back garden to fondle underwear.
- Victim Margaret Day, who has known May since 2013, told the court the behaviour left her anxious, isolated and unwell and a victim statement from July 2025 described a concentrated run of incidents in summer 2025.
- May offered explanations such as applying deep heat, falling curtains and fetching a dog’s ball that the judge rejected as implausible, and he reportedly still refuses to accept wrongdoing.
- Day’s family welcomed the restraining order but say May can still see the victim from his flat and are urging housing authorities to move him, a step they say is needed for practical safety beyond court orders.