Child lessons ban for sex-case piano man

Bradford Crown Court heard yesterday that 62-year-old Huddersfield man John Wilson had previous sexual offences on his record dating back to the 1970s and 80s.

And in 1993 he was also convicted of trying to get a job at a boys' school without revealing his previous offending.

In May this year Wilson, of Gledholt Road, was found guilty by a jury of outraging public decency after he made lewd comments to the unidentified boy on a bus.

At one point he handed the boy a diary which contained a photograph of a man's genitals and a telephone number.

The boy got off the bus at Hipperholme and public-spirited passenger Matthew Haughey intervened to stop Wilson from leaving the vehicle.

Wilson was given a three-year community order. Under its terms he will be supervised for three years by the probation service and he must also attend an accredited sex offender programme.

Wilson will also be subject to an indefinite sexual offences prevention order. He is prohibited from having unsupervised contact with youngsters and there is a specific restriction which bans him from advertising or offering his services as a tutor to any child under 16.