A MAN who grabbed and groped a 16-year-old girl was jailed yesterday.
Judge Peter Armstrong at Teesside Crown Court told Peter Butterfield, 33, he would be closely monitored on his release.
Butterfield had been drinking when he approached a group of youngsters in a street in Stockton, indecently grabbed the girl and made lewd comments.
He denied the attack but later admitted it when he was remanded to prison.
Stephen Constantine, mitigating, said: "The girl and her friends had to re-live it in evidence but it is better that he shows some remorse and contrition than none at all."
Butterfield, of Beridge Road, Stockton, was jailed for six months with an extended licence of 21 months after he was found guilty of indecent assault on August 5 last year.
He must register as a sex offender for seven years.
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