A homeless Nigerian migrant who followed a woman into a care home before exposing himself has been jailed for 12 months.
Olubenga Akinpelu, 57, pursued the woman down an alleyway in a sleepy Surrey village with a broken glass bottle in his hand.
The woman was able to run past Akinpelu after telling him that the police had arrived as she made her way to the care home.
As she ran away, the woman heard glass shattering and noticed that Akinpelu had thrown the bottle at her.
He continued to follow her through the door of the care home, trying to talk to her, the court heard.
A second person then arrived at the care home in a taxi and saw the woman running towards the entrance to the premises.
As the woman approached the care home, the second victim saw the defendant with his trousers undone and his penis exposed, the judge was told.
The defendant said, ‘oh, I am sorry, I must be naked’, and did up his trousers, but continued to shout until the police arrived, Amelia Norman, prosecuting, told Guildford Crown Court on Monday.
Olubenga Akinpelu, 57, was jailed for 12 months at Guildford Crown Court (pictured) and was ordered to sign the sex offenders register for seven years
As police took him into custody, Akinpelu told officers ‘she had run away’ and ‘I want to f*** her and get locked up’.
He also made ‘p***y licking’ motions towards female police officers, until other officers – who formed the impression he was intoxicated – intervened.
The prosecutor said that in a police interview, the defendant had denied all the offences and said ‘it could have been anyone on the CCTV’.
Ms Norman told how Akinpelu had approached the first victim, a woman who was walking to work at the care home at 6.50am on September 1, near a railway station in the Surrey village, which cannot be named to protect the anonymity of the victims.
‘She was approached by the defendant who was trying to talk to her, she could not hear him because she had headphones in’, Ms Norman said.
‘He was asking if she knew the area. She did not respond and continued to walk away.
‘The defendant continued to follow her and continued to try and speak to her. She went down an alleyway that led to the care home, the defendant followed her.
‘She said she felt ‘trapped’ and noticed he had a broken glass bottle in his hand. He was holding it by the neck, holding it like he was going to use it.
‘The victim said she would try and phone police, but he replied ‘go ahead and call the police’, Ms Norman said.
The woman then tricked Akinpelu by telling him the police were behind him and ran past him when he turned around to check, the court heard.
The judge who jailed Akinpelu questioned why he had ended up in a village, with the 57-year-old claiming he had ended up there by mistake and was trying to find out where he was.
Akinpelu, of Western Avenue in Acton, Ealing, had one previous conviction for criminal damage for September 2023.
He later admitted exposure, affray and possession of an offensive weapon, the broken bottle, in relation to this incident.
Alex Crichton-Miller, defending, told how Akinpelu was a father of three children, two of who live in the UK and one who lives in the United States.
‘He is originally from Nigeria but has been in this country for some 20 years,’ Mr Crichton-Miller said.
‘He has struggled to find work and spent the last four years effectively living homeless.
‘He had been staying in east London and had had access to some homeless assistance.’
Asked by Judge Jonathan Black how Akinpelu had come to be in the sleepy Surrey village where the offences took place, Mr Crichton-Miller said: ‘He did not expect to be there.
‘He does accept fully the error of his conduct’, the barrister said.
‘Clearly a part of what was going on was he was trying to find out where he was. He does not know any more than that.’
Judge Black pointed out that, while the defendant had admitted affray and possession of an offensive weapon in the magistrates court, he had not entered an immediate guilty plea to the offence of exposure.
He jailed Akinpelu for 12 months, ordered him to sign the sex offenders register for seven years and imposed a sexual harm prevention order on him for seven years.