Keith Holloway offered the schoolgirl an ice pop and told her she was ‘beautiful’ (Picture: SWNS)

A convicted paedophile who once thrust his exposed genitals at a three-year-old girl has been spared prison for trying to groom an eight-year-old neighbour.

Keith Holloway, 66, was jailed for more than four years back in 2003 over the shocking indecent assault which he carried out in front of the youngster’s horrified mother in a supermarket.

Following his release he was spared further jail time in 2007 for outraging public decency after filming under women’s skirts.

The judge on that occasion imposed a sexual harm prevention order to protect the public, but Holloway breached it in 2016 and 2018 by purchasing devices fitted with a camera.




But his most serious breach concerned his interactions with an eight-year-old neighbour in Barbourne, Worcester.

The city’s crown court heard Holloway offered the schoolgirl an ice pop, told her she was ‘beautiful’ and invited her and her mother to use his new shower.

However, Judge Nicholas Cole refused to lock him up, saying it was a ‘minor’ offence, and because his barrister said prison would be ‘crushing’ for him.

The girl’s mum has now questioned why Holloway – ‘a man who is dangerous because he knows how to play the game and the system’ – is allowed to keep living close by.

She recalled how although she ‘had known Keith vaguely years ago’, she ‘knew nothing of his offences’ and hadn’t seen him for a long time before they bumped into each other in 2017.

The woman added: ‘After this meeting we would go from seeing him once in a while to seeing him every day, this being on the morning school run.

Holloway was spared jail despite breaching a sexual harm prevention order three times (Picture: SWNS)

‘It is clear that he was timing his appearances so that he could see us, particularly my daughter. If he missed us in a morning he would try and catch us in the afternoon on the way home.

‘He started to give my daughter little treats like an ice pop and money.

‘I didn’t like that as I saw it as trying to buy her affection. I told him thank you but he didn’t need to do that.

‘What I didn’t realize was that this was also his excuse to make physical contact with my daughter.’

During one disturbing encounter she said Holloway ‘cupped both of her hands in his, got up close to her face and started making weird groaning sounds’.

The mother said: ‘My daughter told me afterwards that she didn’t like him getting so close, the way he stared at her or the weird noises he made.

‘She said she didn’t like him because he scared her. She called him weird.’

The woman said she is angry that Holloway wasn’t locked up or relocated, but added that she is ‘not prepared to move and let him win’.

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