A 51-YEAR-OLD man indecently assaulted two care workers who came to his home to tend to his mother.

Blackburn magistrates heard David Abram accepted he had assaulted the women but still denied there was anything sexual in the incident.

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Abram, of North Road, Blackburn, was convicted after a trial of sexual assault. He was sentenced to 26 weeks in prison suspended for a year with a 25-day rehabilitation requirement.

He was also ordered to pay £100 compensation to each of his victims, £100 costs and £80 victim surcharge.

Abram was made subject to a sex offender notification requirement for seven years.

Catherine Allan, prosecuting, said Abram had been on the sex offender register for 10 years.

Colleen Dickinson-Jones, defending, said her client didn’t believe he had done anything inappropriate. “He would have pleaded guilty to common assaults but says he was not sexually motivated,” she said.