12-14-2004, 03:23 PM
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Jailed for molesting boy
Dec 14 2004
By Court Reporter
An elderly woman who indecently assaulted a teenage boy in the street has been jailed after a judge said it was wrong to treat her differently to a man.
Hanora Hinksman, 63, was seen moving her hand up and down inside the lad's pants while clutching a can of lager in the other.
A passer-by called the police, fearing the 15-year-old, who suffers from autism, was being molested.
Disgusted members of the public were close to "lynching" the drunken pensioner by the time officers arrived to arrest her.
Afterwards Hinksman, who has a string of previous convictions, insisted the boy "wanted it".
A jury at Inner London Crown Court took four hours to convict Hinksman of indecent assault.
Her barrister, Neil Petersen, had urged the judge not to jail the defendant on the basis of her age and alcohol problems.
But Judge Jonathan van der Verff said: "If the genders were reversed and a drunk 63-year- old man approached a 15-year-old schoolgirl who turned out to be autistic and then put his hands in her under-clothing and then received a non-custodial sentence, it would be surprising if the Attorney General did not intervene."
Jailing Hinksman for 12 months on Friday, the judge said: "You indecently assaulted this boy. He was in his school uniform on his way home.
"You put your hands inside his trousers and masturbated him. People who saw what you were doing were amazed and horrified. Had the police not arrived quickly you may have been lynched.
"People thought what you had done was horrendous."
As she was led away, Hinksman protested: "I did not do it, my honour."
The court had heard she had been visiting her brother-in-law's grave when she was on her way home along Broom Grove Road, Stockwell.
An onlooker said she spotted Hinksman standing with a young man in the street.
Believing they were a courting couple enjoying an intimate clinch she walked by.
But she then spotted the drunken pensioner's hand down the teenager's trousers.
She said: "I was in shock. I didn't know if I was hallucinating, I had been out in the sun that day."
After dashing to a nearby chemist to get help on July 10 last year, she saw the woman climb on to a bus.
She stopped the double decker and told passengers the defendant, who was at the back of the bus, had molested the teenager.
The police arrived on the scene and the pensioner was arrested.
Hinksman, of Royal Esplanade, Margate, Kent, was found guilty of one charge of indecent assault.
Jailed for molesting boy
Dec 14 2004
By Court Reporter
An elderly woman who indecently assaulted a teenage boy in the street has been jailed after a judge said it was wrong to treat her differently to a man.
Hanora Hinksman, 63, was seen moving her hand up and down inside the lad's pants while clutching a can of lager in the other.
A passer-by called the police, fearing the 15-year-old, who suffers from autism, was being molested.
Disgusted members of the public were close to "lynching" the drunken pensioner by the time officers arrived to arrest her.
Afterwards Hinksman, who has a string of previous convictions, insisted the boy "wanted it".
A jury at Inner London Crown Court took four hours to convict Hinksman of indecent assault.
Her barrister, Neil Petersen, had urged the judge not to jail the defendant on the basis of her age and alcohol problems.
But Judge Jonathan van der Verff said: "If the genders were reversed and a drunk 63-year- old man approached a 15-year-old schoolgirl who turned out to be autistic and then put his hands in her under-clothing and then received a non-custodial sentence, it would be surprising if the Attorney General did not intervene."
Jailing Hinksman for 12 months on Friday, the judge said: "You indecently assaulted this boy. He was in his school uniform on his way home.
"You put your hands inside his trousers and masturbated him. People who saw what you were doing were amazed and horrified. Had the police not arrived quickly you may have been lynched.
"People thought what you had done was horrendous."
As she was led away, Hinksman protested: "I did not do it, my honour."
The court had heard she had been visiting her brother-in-law's grave when she was on her way home along Broom Grove Road, Stockwell.
An onlooker said she spotted Hinksman standing with a young man in the street.
Believing they were a courting couple enjoying an intimate clinch she walked by.
But she then spotted the drunken pensioner's hand down the teenager's trousers.
She said: "I was in shock. I didn't know if I was hallucinating, I had been out in the sun that day."
After dashing to a nearby chemist to get help on July 10 last year, she saw the woman climb on to a bus.
She stopped the double decker and told passengers the defendant, who was at the back of the bus, had molested the teenager.
The police arrived on the scene and the pensioner was arrested.
Hinksman, of Royal Esplanade, Margate, Kent, was found guilty of one charge of indecent assault.