Man sentenced for sex offences in Crawley supermarket

Kaspars Grikis, unemployed, 36, of Woodfield Road, Crawley, was sentenced when he appeared at Brighton Magistrates Court on Monday (8 June), Sussex Police said.

A spokesman added: “He was given an 18-month community order, with an unpaid work requirement of 180 hours and a rehabilitation activity requirement. He was also ordered to pay compensation of £100.00.

Investigator Oli Robinson said officers were called to Tesco at Hazelwick, Crawley, in August last year to a report of a drunk man causing problems.

He added: “While officers were at the scene a woman reported having been sexually assaulted by touching in the store and another woman went to the police station to report a similar assault at the same time and place.

“We also obtained store CCTV which very clearly showed a similar assault on another woman in the store at around the same time, and a media appeal resulted in her and a fourth woman coming forward to say they had been assaulted in the same way.”

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