Man ‘invaded’ vulnerable woman’s home and sexually attacked her as she slept
17.05.2022 - 09:01
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A man invaded a vulnerable woman’s home before sexually assaulting her as she slept. Richard Bradley, 45, walked into the woman’s house in the early hours of the morning before making his way to her bedroom.
The woman, who suffers from a number of learning disabilities and shared her home with live-in carers, was awoken on August 15 2021 to see a man standing in her bedroom. She described seeing him unzip his trousers before ‘messing with himself’.
He then walked over to her and sexually assaulted her, Minshull Street Crown Court heard. “The defendant then took his pants off completely and he moved towards the end of the bed,” prosecutor Matthew Curtis said.
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“She got out of bed and ran past him realising this was not right. She spoke to one of the carers who was in the living room and said the woman appeared to be scared.”
The woman told her carer: “there’s a man in my bedroom” and upon searching the bedroom, she saw Bradley sitting on the bed appearing to be masturbating.
In body worn footage shown to the court, officers can be heard asking Bradley ‘Do you live here’, before asking the carers and the woman ‘Do you know him? You don’t know him?’
They then asked Bradley what he was doing and he replied “[Name] lived here, I’m seeing her, she’s in the other room, she knows I’m here.” It was later said that he believed his ex-partner lived at the address.
He was arrested and cautioned and replied ‘Yeah, fair enough’. In a prepared statement, he said he had suffered from a severe brain injury as a result of being struck to the head some years ago, and it has since affected his memory.
He said he suffered from seizures and epilepsy