‘Shy and awkward’ student, 19, who googled ‘how to make a friend’ then touched a schoolgirl, 17, on her arm and waist while trying to chat to her faces JAIL after sex assault conviction

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Jamie Griffiths outside Manchester Magistrates' Court, where he was found guilty of two counts of sexual assault

Jamie Griffiths outside Manchester Magistrates’ Court, where he was found guilty of two counts of sexual assault

A ‘shy and awkward’ student is facing jail after he touched a teenager ‘in an attempt to befriend her.’

Jamie Griffiths, 19, Googled ‘how to make a friend’ then came into contact with the 17-year-old during two attempts to engage her in conversation.

The victim burst into tears during the second encounter and went to police with her mother, claiming Griffiths ‘would have touched her breast had she not moved away’.

She claimed her school work suffered as a result of the contact, leaving her unable to sit her mock exams and apply to Oxford University.

Griffiths, who lives with his parents and now studies at Durham University, denied two charges of sexual assault, claiming he was ‘shy, anxious and awkward’.

He said he had ‘clumsily’ approached the girl in an attempt ‘to make a friend but the words didn’t come out.’

Griffiths was convicted at Manchester Magistrates’ Court and will be sentenced later this month. The offence carries a maximum sentence of ten years jail if dealt with at a crown court and he faces being ordered to sign the Sex Offender Register.

The incidents occurred between October and November last year while the pair were studying A levels at a secondary school in Knutsford, the court heard.

The girl, now 18, said she had been walking home when she encountered Griffiths on a railway bridge.

She told the hearing: ‘I saw him facing a hedge and I thought it was really weird. As I walked towards him, he suddenly swung round so he was facing me.

‘As soon as he moved I moved and said: ‘stop’ and he touched my arm. I sort of jolted out of the way and went into the road to avoid him and he very quickly walked away.

‘I think it would have been on my breast had I not moved. When it first happened I didn’t think much of it. I forgot about it because I had my exams and just thought it was weird behaviour.’

Griffiths told the hearing: 'My intention was to make a friend. All my friends had left so I was lonely I just wanted to speak to someone'

Griffiths told the hearing: ‘My intention was to make a friend. All my friends had left so I was lonely I just wanted to speak to someone’

She said she encountered Griffiths a second time: ‘He suddenly moved to walk in front of me, looked me straight in the eye, touched me on my side and walked off.

‘It was quite a while – three to five seconds. He smirked at me, he didn’t stop he just touched me and walked off and I broke down crying – it was quite traumatic.

‘I struggled for a couple of months afterwards, I was applying for Oxford at the time and I found going to Oxford a stressful thing.

‘It just makes everything a little bit scarier – if there is a guy walking towards me by himself I start to panic. It was more shocking that someone thought they had the right to touch me as I walked down the street.’

Griffiths, who had been volunteering at a Barnado’s charity shop, told the hearing: ‘My intention was to make a friend. All my friends had left so I was lonely I just wanted to speak to someone.

‘She was walking towards me and I recognised her and I knew that she was a student at the school, I didn’t say anything but I really wanted to – the words just didn’t come out. I touched her but I believed that it was the arm I was touching.

‘I smiled at her, I was just trying to be friendly. I tried to get her attention and she ignored me. Touching someone’s arm to get their attention I would have thought was normal. I was looking for a friend.’

Griffiths said he has since signed up to Facebook and Instagram in the hope of making new friends.

He added: ‘I would say I’m very anxious and I don’t naturally make friends although I really try to.

‘When I looked up: ‘trying to meet new people’ and ‘make new friends’ one of the things I read was to start off with a joke.

‘I have always been a very anxious person, my friends all seem to really know what to do and I never really asked of them how they did it. I have always been more stay at home with my parents and loneliness is all consuming.

‘I really needed someone to talk to at the time and my intention was to make a friend – but I clearly didn’t go about it the right way and I am sorry for the misunderstanding.

‘I tried to speak to her but I just couldn’t, my anxiety kicks in and it makes it impossible to say anything. I would hate to make someone feel uncomfortable or scared. Maybe it is time to try to make friends another way.’

Griffiths, 19, (outside Manchester Magistrates' Court) said he had 'clumsily' approached the girl in an attempt 'to make a friend but the words didn't come out'

Griffiths, 19, (outside Manchester Magistrates’ Court) said he had ‘clumsily’ approached the girl in an attempt ‘to make a friend but the words didn’t come out’

His lawyer Claire Aldridge told the court: ‘[The victim] did say: “I think it would have been on my breast had I not moved”, but what she thinks might have happened isn’t the issue.

‘Are you dealing with somebody lying in wait in broad daylight or are you dealing with an anxious and awkward young man, someone who struggles to make friends by his own admission? He is a particularly shy, anxious young man who spends most of his time studying with his parents.’

But prosecutor Victoria Norman said: ‘He intended to touch her breast area and was waiting for her.’

Noting both approaches took place in ‘isolated areas’, she added: ‘An attempt to make a friendship with anyone surely starts with a hello or a wave.’

Magistrates told Griffiths: ‘The complainant’s evidence was very clear, logical and without embellishment. We can think of no motivation for you to touch the victim other than sexual.

‘Had she not taken evasive action the assault was likely to have been even more serious. The first assault can be recognised as opportunistic however there is more evidence of premeditation in the second.’

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Bob P
Bob P

Leading to the question, “Would you rather go to jail for a nothing crime and maybe be raped by the animals in prison, or convert to Islam and be exonerated immediately, then be free to actually rape Christian women as opposed to touching their arm and waist?” Keep in mind that if you convert and try to convert back to Christianity once the heat is off, Muslim fanatics may stone you to death.

Prof. Mandelbrot
Prof. Mandelbrot

Bob nailed it. How about just reporting on rapes by muzzies and you get thrown in jail. Can you say Tommy Robinson. Time has come for armed resistance unfortunately.

Mustang
Mustang

Savage Bob P, savage!!!

Hollow man
Hollow man

Please let this be satire.

BL
BL

First stages of State Unapproved/Approved sex. Nothing says population control for the elites like making it a crime to touch another person in a harmless way. The end game for the elites is to have no contact between humans in a sexual or friendly manner. Future children must be farmed with selected DNA , it’s coming.

Ghost

That is scary.

KaD
KaD

White guy touches white woman- punished. Black men touch white women- not punished.

22winmag - w/o tagline

No shit.

It’s how you feel about it after, not whether you initially consented or not!

Hardscrabble Farmer
Hardscrabble Farmer

Before we moved up here we lived in the same town I had grown up in on a house facing a large field. People would frequently walk the perimeter of the field and if we were sitting on the porch we’d wave to them as they’d pass by whether we knew them or not. I considered that being neighborly. The town was a bedroom community of NYC so there was a lot of turnover with new people moving in all the time, a lot from the city. When they would see us wave you could see them become frightened or suspicious and they’d pick up their pace and look away rather than simply wave back because they’d never encountered that kind of behavior before; a stranger waving hello. I remember making fun of it thinking “How is it possible that people don’t understand the simple principle of waving as a greeting?” but that’s their life experience. Urban dwellers are a fragile group emotionally when they are out of their environment.

A fractured, atomized population of people beset by developmental issues, half of whom are on some kind of mood altering pharmaceuticals doesn’t grasp normal interactions. When you have got to use a search engine to discover how to meet another human, your problems are not going to be easily solved. The girl in the story is equally diminished socially if an exchange like that has left her with PTSD type anxiety.

Sad world out there, not getting any better.

Prof. Mandelbrot
Prof. Mandelbrot

Odd how the more concentrated the city dwellers are packed in like sardines the more socially awkward they are. Used to he the opposite. The rural were socially awkward.

Prof. Mandelbrot
Prof. Mandelbrot

“I struggled for a couple of months afterwards, I was applying for Oxford at the time and I found going to Oxford a stressful thing.”

She left out how when she is pulling a train gang bang with 8 black Somalis’s she has flashbacks of the experience of a shy nice white guy trying to court her by saying hello and it makes her so distraught that she must take breaks during her porn and her Somalis get angry because they go limp while she is having a flashback and therefore it is really messing up her lifestyle so this nice shy white guy should be jailed and maybe even hung.

Ghost

Was that necessary?

BL
BL

Mags- The joo mafia owns porn, porn will go mainstream on tv in the not too distant future here in Merika yet it is a crime to touch a girl’s arm?? Soft porn is common place in internet tv shows now and is common on network tv in Europe so I’m guessing they want guys to use bots, hookers and blow up dolls exclusively in the future so they can make a buck off every fuck, so to speak. Yobe has a valid point.

BL
BL

Go back and watch THX1138, prescription drugged up population watching tv with nothing to choose from but kneegroes and state goon police bashing in the heads of citizens. Unapproved sex prohibited by the state, while they are monitored 24/7 with big brother. Constant announcements to shop and spend their money even though they are numb from drugs…..we call them commercials or infomercials.

Take your drugs and spend, spend, spend citizen. But for God’s sake, don’t touch anyone.

BLESSINGS FROM THE STATE…..

Southern Sage
Southern Sage

To hell with these silly bitches. Thank God I am surrounded by Latinas, real women. Maybe some Paki teaches this school girl what a real sexual assault is. I feel for the poor young man.

Montefrio

I too am surrounded by Latinas, given that I live in South America. Cheek kissing is the norm even with women (married or not) one has just met. Typically, one hand on waist, the other on upper arm or in my case a shoulder pat, because I’m 6’3″ and women here are rarely as tall as, say, 5′ 9″. We haven’t yet hit the point that a female would do what is being done to this unfortunate fellow.He should learn Spanish and head south. Spain, although European, hasn’t sunk as low as the UK.

Steve
Steve

“He touched my arm” says the girl with known prolific ability to deep throat any sausage.

Vote Harder
Vote Harder

Once again this just proves that the USA is run by female supremacists.

Anonymous
Anonymous

It’s England.
And just more evidence that the controllers in that country have been corrupted by the progressives, feminists, globalists, in the mandate to destroy western Traditionalist and Nationalist culture.
White Anglo hetero males.
Getting bombarded on all sides.

Small wonder MGTOW is gaining momentum.

In the U.S., it’s evident in all the Democrat large area urban strongholds.

Look no further than the forced acceptance of Tranny Storytime with the Kiddies, at your local library.

Ghost

This cannot be for real.

TC
TC

If the kid was black, he would have grabbed the girl from behind and started convulsively grinding his crotch into her. Everyone would whoop, laugh and bump fists, then the video would be uploaded to worldstarhiphop and proceed to get a million thumbs up.

K Vizzle
K Vizzle

Yet third world Pakis are gang raping girls and suffer no repercussions. Sickening

Mustang
Mustang

Men, the answer is pure and simple and as obvious as the nose on your face : MGTOW!!!!!!

KaD
KaD

If one of the muslim invaders had RAPED the same girl I’d bet he’d have got a stern talking to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gxz65malIQ&feature=youtu.be

22winmag - w/o tagline

Looks faked!

Whole thing seems similar to this Psyop:

http://mileswmathis.com/roy.pdf

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