Face of the monster who attacked terrified schoolgirl in Sheffield alley causing her to 'wet herself'

Bradley Simpkins followed the girl as she walked home from school on April 24, last year, prosecutor Nicola Quinney told Sheffield Crown Court, on Wednesday.

He grabbed her around the waist and tried to pull her leggings down, causing her to fall to the floor.

"He then pulled her top up and tried to rip her bra off. He grabbed hold of one of her breasts and squeezed it. She explained she was so scared she wet herself."

The girl was able to activate a mobile phone alarm which scared SImpkins off.

Three days earlier, Simpkins' 18-year-old victim was walking to work along a path beside fields when she was passed by a man, at 2pm.

"She heard someone running behind her thinking they were just a runner," said Ms Quinney."However, when they got closer to her, they grabbed her around the waist and pulled her to the floor.

"He pulled her top and bra up and was trying to touch her breasts. The only time he spoke to her was to ask if she had more than one nipple piercing.

"She was trying to kick him off her and shouted for help."

In a statement, made two weeks later, the school girl said: "At the time this happened I was so frightened, I didn't know if I was going to get killed.”

The 18-year-old said she was left feeling vulnerable and mistrustful of men.

Matthew Burdon, mitigating, said Simpkins, who has no previous convictions, "belatedly took responsibility for his actions" and his guilty plea was his main mitigation.

Simpkins, 21, of Arbourthorne Road, Arbourthorne, pleaded guilty before a trial and received five years in prison. He was placed on the Sex Offenders Register for the rest of his life.

The Recorder of Sheffield, Judge Jeremy Richardson QC praised the "courage, fortitude and presence of mind” of both complainants.

He told Simpkins: “I regard you as having the potential to be an exceptionally dangerous man.”