Gym-goer touched woman’s bottom in ladies’ changing room

Sean Bigby, 35, from Hackney, touched a woman’s bottom in the ladies’ changing rooms. He pleaded guilty to one count of sexual assault at the Old Bailey 

A gym fanatic who stripped naked and touched a woman’s bottom in the female changing rooms has been spared jail.

Sean Bigby, 35, claimed testosterone and protein shakes had left him with a ‘fuzzy head’ and feeling ‘confused and disorientated’.

The Old Bailey heard how he crept up behind a swimmer and brushed against her buttocks while she washed her hands in the women’s changing room at Clissold Leisure Centre in Stoke Newington. 

The stunned victim saw Bigby wander into the room naked minutes earlier but thought he had made an embarrassing mistake.

But after he touched her she told a lifeguard and Bigby was identified from CCTV footage.  

Bigby, from Hackney, later told police he had been ‘confused and disorientated’ after taking testosterone and downing protein supplements at the gym after his work out in November last year.

He pleaded guilty to one count of sexual assault at the Old Bailey.  

Prosecutor Michael Williams said the victim was wearing a swimming costume in the women’s changing rooms when she saw Bigby come in ‘completely naked’.

He explained: ‘At first she thought it was just an embarrassing accident, him being in the wrong changing room.’

The women ignored Bigby and went to the toilet, but when she returned to wash her hands in a basin ‘she felt a brushing on her bottom’.

Mr Williams said: ‘It shocked her, she jumped and said words to the effect of ‘what the f**k?’ 

The woman reported the incident to a lifeguard and Bigby was later identified from CCTV footage. 

Mr Williams said: ‘In interview he accepted he had been present on the day in question, had been naked and asserted that he had taken two protein shakes which had caused him to become confused and disorientated.’

Bigby told police he had been 'confused and disorientated' after taking testosterone and a protein shake after a workout

Bigby told police he had been ‘confused and disorientated’ after taking testosterone and a protein shake after a workout

Alexander Taylor-Camara, defending, said the assault was ‘out of character’ while Bigby was taking ‘medication to support his gym activity’.

He said: ‘The mixture he was taking may have combined not to make his mental state the best. 

‘He told me he wasn’t aware initially of the woman and having become aware of her he then brushed past her.’

Prosecutors accepted they couldn’t prove Bigby had touched the woman with his penis and he was sentenced on the basis he used another part of his body. 

Judge Karim Khalil, QC gave him an 11-month community order and told him to pay £1,200 prosecution costs and £750 compensation to the victim.

The Old Bailey heard how he crept up behind a swimmer and brushed against her buttocks while she washed her hands in the women's changing room at Clissold Leisure Centre in Stoke Newington (pictured) 

The Old Bailey heard how he crept up behind a swimmer and brushed against her buttocks while she washed her hands in the women’s changing room at Clissold Leisure Centre in Stoke Newington (pictured) 

The judge also imposed a restraining order and a Sexual Harm Prevention Order which bars Bigby from going to Clissold Leisure Centre or contacting the victim for five years.

He said: ‘You were there, it seems, to use the gym initially but as time passed you ended up in the ladies’ locker room.

‘She noticed that you were naked but ignored you and carried on as best she could, but in due course you walked past her and she felt you touching her from behind.

‘She was plainly extremely disturbed by what was happening and told you in plain terms to f**k off.’

The judge said Bigby ‘described using protein shakes and possibly too much testosterone’ before the sexual assault.

‘[You said] your head was fuzzy, you thought you were in the men’s changing room and were confused for a while,’ he added.

Judge Khalil said the interviewing police officer had been ‘unimpressed’ by Bigby’s story which he accepted sounded ‘far fetched’. 

 

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