August 2010 Therapy for sex pest A NEW Forest man who exposed himself on a train in front of a teenager was ordered to undergo treatment for sex offenders as part of a three-year supervision order. The incident happened after Christopher Guest boarded a Waterloo-Weymouth service at Southampton. Prosecutor Edward Phillips told Southampton Crown Court the 15-year-old boy was particularly vulnerable that day because he had just scattered his father’s ashes. Guest kept staring at him on the journey and the youth then realised he had exposed himself. Guest, 31, of Hardy Close, New Milton, who admitted indecent exposure, must also pay the teenager £500 compensation. He was also placed on the sex offenders’ register for five years. May 2001 Sex offender to get treatment A SEX offender who burgled the pub where he lived and worked after being told he had lost his job has escaped being sent straight to prison. Christopher Guest is instead likely to be allowed to get treatment for his problems. Swindon Magistrates’ Court heard that Guest asked friends to break into the bar area of the Cock Robin at Cavendish Square, Park North, while it was changing hands because the new licensee had told him they wanted him out. The 22-year-old used his key to let in the friends. He led them through the cellar to the bar area, where they caused damage and stole goods to the value of £2,332. Magistrates were told that, as well as cash being taken from the till and machines, bottles of spirits were ripped from the optics and pocketed, the cigarette machines were smashed open and everything inside taken, and two 11-gallon barrels of lager were taken from the cellar. Guest, who had been told he could spend an extra night in the staff flat to give him time to find new accommodation, was arrested upstairs by police alerted by the alarm. In his rooms, they discovered till rolls from the bar, before uncovering a bin-liner filled with cigarettes taken from one of the vending machines. Magistrates decided to defer sentence after being told it was important that Guest received help for his sexual offending. Earlier, the 22-year-old had been given a three-year probation order, after he admitted two counts of gross indecency towards young boys at Seven Fields, Penhill. At that hearing, the court heard how Guest was caught after one of his young victims saw a picture of the offender in the Evening Advertiser, in an article com-menting on Penhill’s image. As well as being placed on probation, Guest was told that he would have to register as a sex offender for the next five years. Rob Ross, defending, said that straight after the break-in Guest was remanded in custody until a suitable bail hostel could be found for him, as he had been thrown out of the pub. He said that since then his client had been in Southampton, first in a hostel, then in ac-commodation provided by the English Churches Housing Group, and so had not begun the sex offenders’ course, which was part of his probation order. “It is abundantly clear that this young man has a number of psycho-sexual problems that were clearly going to need a fairly long period of work done on them,” Mr Ross said.