A PERVERT who sexually assaulted a woman has been hauled back in court for breaching his sex offender registration requirements.

Liam Groarke was told that he needed to ‘grow up’ in October 2016 when he was handed a suspended sentence for his inappropriate actions.

The now 25-year-old was made the subject of obligations to sign the sex offender register.

But he breached those and was brought back before the courts, where magistrates decided against sending him to prison.

Prosecuting the sentencing hearing at Warrington Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, January 5, Tom Quirk explained how the defendant had failed to comply with his sex offender notification and registration requirements.

This occurred between April 1 and December 3 last year.

The court heard that he failed, without reasonable excuse, to comply with his notification requirements by moving out of a named address in Sankey Bridges and failing to notify Cheshire Police of his new address.

He was handed these obligations after sexually assaulting a member of staff at a town centre nightclub in January 2016.

At the time, Halton Magistrates’ Court heard how he ‘forcefully’ grabbed a woman between her legs while she was cleaning the stairs during her shift.

The victim described turning around to see a man looking at her and grinning, while another male customer pointed and said: “It was him.”

She asked a door manager to throw Groarke out of the club and said she was ‘emotional and upset’ because of the incident.

It was said in his defence that he could not remember the incident after having an ‘incredible amount to drink’.

He has breached his sex offender registration requirements before, having been jailed for eight weeks in March 2020

Before sentencing, magistrates remarked that the offence was ‘so serious’ that only a custodial sentence could be justified.

This was due to it being the defendant’s third breach of his requirements, with the bench also concluding that it was a ‘deliberate’ breach.

However, taking his guilty plea into account, they opted against making the sentence immediate due to him being a sole carer for a dependant relative in ill-health.

Groarke, of Statham Avenue in Orford, was sentenced to 26 weeks in prison suspended for 24 months.

He was also ordered to complete 15 rehabilitation activity requirement days, as well as pay costs to the Crown Prosecution Service of £120 and a surcharge to fund victim services of £128.