Transvestite who dressed as old lady to grope young girls told he can keep wearing women's clothing 'to meet his emotional needs'

Jailed in 2009 for luring a 14-year-old girl into his car

Caught breaching prevention order after release



The 5ft 50-year-old would sidle up to women while wearing perfume and a scarf over his face

Turned to transvestism aged 11 after being bullied because of his small stature

Pervert: Paul Reed, 50, disguised himself with perfume and covered his face with a scarf to sneak up on victims aged as young as 14

A transvestite who dresses as an old lady to grope young girls has been told he can keep wearing women’s clothes to meet his 'emotional needs'.



Paul Reed, 50, who is just 5ft tall, disguised himself with perfume and winter woollies to sneak up on victims aged as young as 14 in Kent.



The pervert hid his masculine features under a woman’s coat, scarf and hat and even sprinkled vanilla essence over his disguise to make him smell like an old woman.

He would put on a 'soft-pitched' voice and talk about the cold weather while snuggling up to unsuspecting female passers-by.

All the unsuspecting women believed Reed really was a woman.

Reed has been hauled before the courts on numerous occasions for breaching prevention orders.



The cross-dresser was even jailed for three years in 2009 after luring a 14-year-old girl into his car while dressed as 'an elderly woman'.



He was caught breaching his latest sexual offences prevention order on January 16 this year, when undercover cops caught him spying on a nurse in his disguise.



Reed admitted the offence - but a judge has now ruled he can continue to dress in women’s clothes because his 'emotional needs' require it.

At a hearing at Canterbury Crown Court in Kent, Judge Michael O’Sullivan said psychiatrists had concluded that 'the wearing of women’s clothing is ingrained in Reed’s psyche'.

He told the defendant: 'There is to be no more sidling up to women in bus queues and touching them.



'That must cease because you must understand how upsetting that can be.



'If you wish to dress up in women’s clothing you can do that but you must not cover your face, so that people will know that you are a man.'

'Learned behaviour': Judge Michael O’Sullivan accepted that wearing women’s clothing was ingrained in Reed’s psyche at Canterbury Crown Court, pictured



Reed must abide by a new order that prevents him from covering his face in public or approaching women 'not previously associated with him' while dressed as a woman.

The 50-year-old was caught in January when undercover police tracked him after he was released from prison.

He was photographed dressed in a woman’s coat, with his face shielded by a scarf, lurking around bus stations and outside hospitals and approaching women in the street to cuddle up to them.



Suspicious police watched him touching and stroking a series of young women, including a nurse.



There is to be no more sidling up to women in bus queues and touching them. You must understand how upsetting that can be.

- JUDGE MICHAEL O'SULLIVAN

Officers watched him approach the nurse wearing women’s clothes he had stolen that day, including a scarf he used to cover his face.



The court heard he had turned to transvestism aged 11 after being bullied because of his small stature.



Psychiatrists told the court Reed’s actions were 'learned behaviour in order to meet his emotional needs'.



Reed’s brother confirmed the cross-dresser had never married or had children, and is believed to be unemployed.



Pat Reed said he had no contact with the sex offender since he left the family home, in Folkestone, Kent, five years ago.



He said: 'I don’t have a clue what he’s been up to. The last I heard he was in prison.



'He’s never married and he doesn’t have any children. I don’t think he’s ever had a job.

