NOTTINGHAM HOMELESS MAN JAILED FOR SEXUAL OFFENCES AND ASSAULTS
A bus driver caught a 61-year-old Nottingham rough sleeper pleasuring himself sexually on the back seat while the vehicle had women and children passengers on it.Nottingham Crown Court was told how Adrian Wildgust also attacked his long-term partner of 17 years in her own home during a spate of separate offences after his life descended into what a judge called “a miserable and wretched existence”.
The now homeless defendant, who had been living at the Broad Marsh bus station, then drunkenly threatened to break the legs of two staff at Nottingham railway station after trying to get through the barriers without a ticket.
And in a victim impact statement, the now ex-partner he assaulted told how she fears he will come after her when he is released from jail.
Handing him a two-year and three-month jail term for all of the offences, Judge Michael Auty KC said: “What is remarkable about you is that, apart from one conviction in 1998 for indecent exposure, you have led a blameless life until the wheels came off last year.
All of these offences plainly happened while you were in drink.
“But the reality is you have gone from being what you once were - a hard-working, law-abiding man - to one who was living a miserable and wretched existence using the facilities over the road from here at the Broad Marsh bus station.” Denney Lau, prosecuting, said Wildgust and the female victim had been partners for 17 years but their relationship “became strained” in 2022 and he received a conviction in 2024 for stalking her and was handed a restraining order not to contact her.
He said in June of last year they chanced upon each other in Nottingham city centre, had some drinks and then ended up back at her city address.
During an argument he launched himself at her and punched her to the face.
She fell over and when she got back up he kicked her to her knee.
In October of last year he attended her address and she let him in because she felt sorry for him, they went to a public house and then back at her address he again launched himself at her punching her repeatedly to her arm.
On April 10, last year, the driver of the bus was in the city centre, looked in his rear view mirror and saw that Wildgust was pleasuring himself while sitting on the back seat.
There were adults and children on it, and one young girl would have had a full view of him.
The prosecutor said the final offences involved the defendant, of no fixed address, making threats to railway station workers on June 11, last year.
He later pleaded guilty to charges of indecent exposure, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, breaching a restraining order, and using threatening behaviour.
In her impact statement, the woman, in the courtroom to see her former partner jailed, said: “I loved him and I thought he loved me and did not want to harm me and threaten to kill me.
Now I just cry all the time and I am angry all of the time.
I am frightened by the thought he might kill me when he comes out of prison.” Nicola Hunter, mitigating, said her client worked in various jobs all his life including in double glazing, in shops, and cleaning, but gave up work in his late 50s “due to a number of health issues”.
She said: “He began living in the Broad Marsh bus station where he told me it was warm and he could take showers.” “The judge handed the defendant a 10-year restraining order not to contact his former partner.”
