A BURGLAR deliberately targeted the Coventry homes of young Chinese women at night to sexually abuse them and steal.
Roy Daley travelled on his scooter from his Birmingham home to Coventry for his raids in January.
One victim described how he had tied her to her bed and sexually assaulted her before making off with money and bank card.
Daley denied two charges of trespass with intent to commit sexual offences, three of burglary and one of assault by penetration.
A jury at Warwick Crown Court took less than half an hour to find him guilty of those charges and of further offences of theft and common assault which he had also denied.
Remanding Daley (49) of Bordesley Green, Bordesley Green, Birmingham, in custody, Judge Barry Berlin said he wanted a report assessing the danger Daley poses to women before sentencing him.
Prosecutor John Farmer said his first victim was a 20-year-old with a ground-floor room in a shared house.
Giving evidence, she said she was woken by her door opening, and saw a man in the doorway wearing a head torch and thick leather gloves.
“I had nothing on, just pants. He pulled them off. He pressed me down and tied my hands together, probably using my bath towel. He put my scarf over my face and then he put my pillow over my face.”
He took £20 in cash and bank card and made her write down the pin number.
“He pushed me down on the bed, then he tied me up again. He tied my hands, and my feet as well.”
He pulled her legs apart and penetrated her with his finger, still wearing the leather gloves.
He left, taking her keys and locking the door from the outside. She got out into the garden and ran to a neighbour’s house.
A CCTV camera captured him at Earlsdon post office, where he used the stolen bank card to withdraw £400, said Mr Farmer.
Six days later Daley targeted a 22-year-old Chinese student at 6.30am.
She screamed loudly for her flatmates, and he pushed her down on the bed with his hand over her mouth, but then fled.
By the time of his next visit to Coventry later in January, the police were looking out for a stocky black attacker with a black Honda PCX 125cc scooter.
At just before 6am two officers in Friars Road saw a silhouette of someone in Manor House Drive carrying something rectangular.
When he saw them, he dived into shrubs and made off over garden fences into a private car park where he was arrested after being ‘red-spotted’ with a Taser.
He had a bag with a screwdriver and other items including binoculars, which Mr Farmer suggested he had used to pick out his victims, while on him he had some Chinese money.
In the bushes, they found a laptop computer he had stolen in a burglary in Friars Road, occupied by a male Chinese student.
Daley, who was bizarrely wearing four pairs of trousers and four tops and coats, also had a key which fitted the back door of that house.
On his phone was a recording, apparently made during another burglary, zooming in on the genital area of a young Chinese woman asleep on a bed.
When he was questioned Daley, who did not give evidence, said he had travelled from Birmingham to go to a Caribbean night club, and knew nothing about the burglary that night and had never seen the key before.
In relation to the earlier incidents, he claimed to have been at home or at the gym, and that he had found the Chinese money in a bus shelter.
Judge Berlin said: “In my view he is a dangerous man.. The sentence I have in mind will be a serious one.”
