A pensioner and serial offender has been jailed for four months after being found in Bushy Park with an image of a girl under the age of 17; a breach of his sexual offences prevention order.

Edward Prior, 80, admitted breaching the order Tuesday, September 27, and was sentenced at Wimbledon Magistrates’ Court.

Prior, of Fulwell Road, Teddington was told only a custodial sentence could be justified because it was the second breach of the order.

In 2014 he was jailed for 18 months after sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy on a bus, when he showed him a photograph of a naked woman and squeezed the boy’s leg.

Prior has previously committed a number of similar offences and was found guilty of indecently assaulting two young boys in Bushy Park in 2008, but escaped a prison sentence in favour of a community order.

He failed to comply with this order and was given a jail term in 2012 after being found guilty of sexually assaulting an eight-year-old boy.

Prior was also ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £115 and £85 to the Crown Prosecution Service.