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Bottom Smacker Put on Sex Offender RegisterA 22-year-old man was put on the sex offender register for seven years after he slapped an off-duty police officer on the bottom.
Anthony O'Neill, 22, smacked the woman after she bent down near him in Market Street, central Manchester.
She produced her warrant card and arrested him on the spot. He pleaded guilty to sexual assault at Manchester Magistrates' Court last week and was sentenced to one month in prison.
The builder was also required to go on the sex offender register for the next seven years.
The incident happened last November, at 11am, after O'Neill, of Goredale Avenue, Gorton, had been drinking.
When questioned by police he said he had "done it to loads of girls'' and that "some girls take it the appropriate way and some don't like it''.
At court he also pleaded guilty to possessing a Stanley knife and breaching his bail conditions.
A Crown Prosecution Service spokeswoman said: "Sexual assault is always serious.''
"The victim in this case was in plain clothes and could have been any member of the public.''
She said the court did not fix the seven-year registration penalty, which was set by Parliament.
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