Groping grocer who claimed it was just 'banter' as he kissed women shoppers on the lips and urged them to strip is forced to pay each of his victims £1,000 compensation
Women shoppers have won £1,000 compensation each from a groping grocer dubbed ‘Grabber Grenfell’ who pressed his hands against their breasts.
Raymond Grenfell, 70, claimed his touching, kissing and saucy comments to female customers were just ‘friendly banter’ in Crickhowell, Powys.
The Cub Scout leader was found guilty of sexual assaults in his store, before appealing to overturn this to clear his name as a ‘pillar of the community’.
But his victims returned to Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court to give new evidence to a judge who ordered him to pay £1,000 to three shoppers and said he was a ‘man who lacks respect for women’.
Grenfell was earlier convicted of sexually assaulting four women in their 30s and 40s by grabbing them by their breasts, their waist, kissing them on the lips and begging them to take their clothes off.
The grandfather-of-four, described as ‘the pillar of the community’, denied the allegations at the Grenfell and Son store.
He was convicted by magistrates at nearby Brecon - but appealed against his convictions at Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court as his victims gave more evidence. One victim told the court: ‘We all called him Grabber Grenfell.’