May 2019 Carlisle sex offender flouted court order banning him from city parks A pervert who once performed a sex act in front of three children flouted a court order banning him from parks in the city. Roger Thomas Scott, 45, returned to Chances Park in Morton, Carlisle, despite having been spotted there by an off-duty police officer, in defiance of a court order that bans him from parks, playgrounds, or swimming pools. The city’s crown court heard how in 2016 he had been prosecuted for an offence in another city park which he committed in view of three 15-year-old girls. His latest two offences – which he admitted – were committed on February 24, said prosecutor Gerard Rogerson. When the off-duty officer spotted him, smelling of alcohol, she challenged him and asked him why he was in park. “He told her he was on his way to the shops,” said Mr Rogerson. Despite getting that warning, Scott, of Partridge Place, off Wigton Road, repeated the offence by walking through the park on his way home. Mr Rogerson said the two offences also put Scott in breach of his earlier suspended 21-month suspended jail term. David Wales, for Scott, described the two breaches of the defendant’s Sexual Harm Prevention Order as a “stupid oversight”. “He was looking for vegetables for a meal he was cooking for himself and his girlfriend,” said the lawyer. “He’d been to the shops in the vicinity of his home and found nothing, and he was going to the other side of the park.” Mr Wales said Scott was not a man who did not care about the court order. He had simply been absent-minded and foolish. He had openly told police about his second walk through the park on his return journey. The earlier offence – in front of the three girls – was in Hammonds Pond, Upperby. Judge James Adkin jailed Scott for 17 months. The judge told the defendant: “Your antecedents demonstrate you are an individual who has committed serious sexual offences before. “You have a proclivity to expose yourself to children, and did do so in a park in May 2017.” He added that the latest offence had been a deliberate breach of his court order. July 2017 Carlisle park sex act man sentenced by court A man who committed a sex act in front of three 15-year-old girls in a busy Carlisle park has been spared immediate prison. Roger Thomas Scott, 43, “targeted” the trio, initially following them around Hammonds Pond before staring at them from bushes. In clear view of the disgusted girls, he then dropped his shorts. At the time, on the evening of May 28, the park was said to have been busy with people of all ages – from babies to the elderly. Scott was sentenced today having previously admitted engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child. Carlisle Crown Court heard he had historical offences on his criminal record for both indecent assault and exposure. Judge Peter Hughes QC was told Scott, of Upperby Road, Carlisle, had received a “significant wake-up call” having spent seven weeks in custody since his latest crime. And after hearing mitigation, Judge Hughes suspended a 21-month jail term for two years. He ordered Scott to complete a sex offender treatment course and a rehabilitation requirement, concluding that was the best way of protecting the community long-term. Scott must sign the sex offenders’ register for 10 years, and received a sexual harm prevention order which bans him from entering any park, playground, sports field, playground and swimming pool.