London, June 17: 'Star Wars' actor Nicholas Read is facing jail after he admitted exposing himself to a girl on a train for the second time.
The 41-year-old actor flashed himself at a student on a train to Manchester and took a picture of her horrified friend using a mobile phone.
At the time of the offence, the 'Star Wars' star had just enrolled on a sex offenders' treatment programme.
The 41-year-old actor flashed himself at a student on a train to Manchester and took a picture of her horrified friend using a mobile phone.
At the time of the offence, the 'Star Wars' star had just enrolled on a sex offenders' treatment programme.
- 6/17/2012
- by Shiva Prakash
- RealBollywood.com
Harry Potter star Nicholas Read has avoided a jail sentence after indecently exposing himself to a teenage girl.
The 40-year-old dwarf, who has also appeared as an Ewok in the Star Wars movie franchise, performed a sex act on himself under a hat on a train in October after "trapping" the 17-year-old girl.
Read, who has previous sex convictions, was convicted of indecent exposure last month, and on Friday he was handed a 20-week suspended prison term at Leicester Crown Court, England.
He was also ordered to attend a sex offenders course, with Judge Richard Bond telling him, "Imprisonment won't help you, and it won't protect the public from your fantasies."...
The 40-year-old dwarf, who has also appeared as an Ewok in the Star Wars movie franchise, performed a sex act on himself under a hat on a train in October after "trapping" the 17-year-old girl.
Read, who has previous sex convictions, was convicted of indecent exposure last month, and on Friday he was handed a 20-week suspended prison term at Leicester Crown Court, England.
He was also ordered to attend a sex offenders course, with Judge Richard Bond telling him, "Imprisonment won't help you, and it won't protect the public from your fantasies."...
- 7/30/2011
- WENN
London, July 30: A dwarf who appeared in the Harry Potter and Star Wars films has escaped a short jail spell for indecently exposing himself to a schoolgirl on a train.
Nicholas Read, 40, sat next to a 17-year-old schoolgirl blocking her exit on a train and performed some indecent acts under a juggler’s hat.
“He placed his hat on his crotch. I saw a movement and I didn’t know whether to believe it,” the Daily Mail quoted the victim as revealing to the court.
“I looked in the reflection of the window and saw his hand moving under the hat. He tried to catch my attention, tilting his hat up,.
Nicholas Read, 40, sat next to a 17-year-old schoolgirl blocking her exit on a train and performed some indecent acts under a juggler’s hat.
“He placed his hat on his crotch. I saw a movement and I didn’t know whether to believe it,” the Daily Mail quoted the victim as revealing to the court.
“I looked in the reflection of the window and saw his hand moving under the hat. He tried to catch my attention, tilting his hat up,.
- 7/30/2011
- by Rahul Kapoor
- RealBollywood.com
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- 6/14/2011
- by Peter Sciretta
- Slash Film
London, June 9: A dwarf who played Ewok in 'Star Wars' and as a goblin in 'Harry Potter' is facing jail after he indecently exposed himself to a schoolgirl on a train.
Nicholas Read, 40, who stands 4ft 5in, had drunk half a bottle of gin and was feeling "merry" when he sat next to the 17-year-old girl on the train from London, and performed the indecent act.
Read covered his lap with.
Nicholas Read, 40, who stands 4ft 5in, had drunk half a bottle of gin and was feeling "merry" when he sat next to the 17-year-old girl on the train from London, and performed the indecent act.
Read covered his lap with.
- 6/9/2011
- by News
- RealBollywood.com
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