Former honorary policeman ‘was sexual predator’

Thursday 23rd December 2010, 2:59PM GMT.

The Royal Court building

The Royal Court building

A FORMER honorary police officer who groped two women in separate attacks just minutes apart has been jailed for 18 months by the Royal Court.

Virgilio Ferdinando Pita Mendes (35) was described in court as a ‘sexual predator’ who had preyed on two drunk, vulnerable women during the ‘unpleasant’ assaults in August.

One woman, the court heard, was left ‘petrified’ by an assault which could have been far more serious had a passer-by not intervened.

• See today’s JEP for the full report


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