Homeless man jailed over exposure before Watford schoolgirl

Scott Bailey, of no fixed address, had been given a community order just over a month earlier for multiple similar offences when he confronted the teenager who was on a bus to school in Watford.

She was sitting at the back of the bus in the town centre on March 18 when the 45-year-old, who had been drinking and taking drugs, tried to talk to her.

After commenting on her hair, he touched himself in front of her for around three minutes.

Scott Bailey appeared for sentencing last Friday at Luton Crown Court. (Image: Newsquest) The scared teenager pushed the stop button, left the bus in Watford High Street and phoned the police, Luton crown court was told on Friday (July 12).

Prosecutor Neil King said the driver then saw Bailey spit and retch on the floor of the bus.

When he asked him to get off, Bailey shouted “f… off” and called him a “w…..”.

After being arrested at the scene, Bailey later told officers he had been drinking and smoking cannabis and could not remember what happened. The bus had to be deep cleaned.

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Recorder Lee Harris told him: “This was disgusting behaviour and no-one should be subjected to it, let alone a 14-year-old schoolgirl travelling to school.”

The prosecution said just over a month earlier, Bailey had been given a community order for four similar offences at Croydon Crown Court on February 5.

He stood outside a woman’s house and touched his genitals on one occasion, performed a sex act by a woman’s window as she got ready for bed another time, and exposed himself to a female jogger.

On the fourth occasion, he was seen crouching with his trousers down by a woman who had just left her bathroom. When she asked him what he was doing he said he was “just being a perv”, said Mr King.

Bailey appeared for sentence on Friday (July 12) after admitting exposure and criminal damage, as well as being in breach of the community order. 

He had 34 previous convictions for 57 offences and the court heard he had mental health difficulties.