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‘Private £arrangement’ pest Paul Hetyey claimed he got his bizarre idea from YouTube .

And when he was arrested and spoken to by police he said: “The laws of this country were made by feminists.”

Hetyey, 51, admitted soliciting girls as young as 17 by handing them sleazy letters around Middlesbrough .

Tuesday’s sentencing heard a “bundle” of new notes were found on Hetyey when security guards ended his creepy campaign near Debenhams.

They included requests to find a “submissive female”, who wasn’t interested in the “usual alpha or beta male chimp role play.”

The letters were circulated on social media after one was posted on Facebook.

Police began investigating when an officer spotted Hetyey hand a woman a note in a queue in the Cleveland Centre .

Hetyey’s victims told Teesside Magistrates’ Court how his actions had scared them.

One said she was spooked by how he “crept” behind her, adding: “I was worried the male was still around and could do other things.”

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Another added: “At first I was confused and thought it was weird.

“(But) I was worried this male could have followed me.”

And another victim said: “One day I hope to be the same old me,” the court heard.

In total, the Parliament Road man admitted four counts of soliciting in September and October - a second similar conviction.

The letters handed out to the women, who were simply going about their business and were not sex workers, were similar in nature.

One read: “You are simply a female who caught my eye.

“I don’t have time to talk right now, I am not looking for a girlfriend or relationship.

“I am looking for a possible private £arrangement - If you understand my meaning.

“I make no promises - if you are interested and single and have time to meet discreetly?

“Otherwise have an enchanting day.”

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Now a judge has banned him from handing out letters to anybody in public for the next three years.

District Judge Helen Carter imposed the order as she fined him £85 for the offences.

In mitigation, it was claimed self-employed Hetyey had stopped handing letters out following his actions being made public.

“He told me he was embarrassed by what happened,” said his solicitor Paul Dixon.

“It is something he had seen on YouTube, that’s why he did it.

“He has done something completely stupid.”

Previously, Hetyey proclaimed his innocence despite pleading guilty - claiming that what he did was no worse than what other men say when trying to chat women up online.

“I was told the police said it was not a criminal offence to hand out a note and now they seem to be changing their minds,” he claimed.

“The police should have put it on their social media sites that (what I was doing) was criminal.”

“If you are a heterosexual male in East Cleveland, it is a bit like the Spanish Inquisition,” he told the Gazette .

However, Cleveland Police insisted it was an offence to hand letters out if they caused distress.

After the afternoon hearing, Hetyey dashed from court - scaling a court railing - as he frantically tried to avoid being photographed.

Previously, he ran from court wearing goggles.