Overview

• Yousuf Musa admitted grabbing a volunteer’s genitals and touching her breast over clothing at a church-hosted asylum-seeker support event in Northumberland.
• After police arrested him, he asked a female officer for a kiss in the custody van and, while on bail the next day, harassed a stranger and her family by demanding hugs and touching an older woman’s shoulder.
• A pre-sentence report described him as “acutely sexually preoccupied” at the relevant times and assessed him as posing a high risk of serious harm to others.
• Recorder Andrew Haslam KC sentenced him to 16 months behind bars, ordered him onto the sex-offender register for ten years and imposed five-year restraining orders, with five months served on remand credited toward the term.
• Details of Musa’s asylum status and any potential deportation prospects were not disclosed during the court proceedings.