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A postman on a delivery round asked a young woman in the street if she would perform a sex act for £20, a court heard.
Lee Troth, 48, pulled up in his Royal Mail van alongside the woman while she was walking down a street in Sleaford, Lincolnshire.
He then wound his window down to make the X-rated request to which she refused, reports Lincolnshire Live.
And when she continued to refuse, Troth – donning a Royal Mail peaked cap – then asked for a different sex act instead.
Prosecuting, Jim Clare said that Troth was in full uniform at the time.
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He said that at 1pm on December 19, the young woman was walking to her friend’s house when she saw Troth in his van, pulling up beside her and getting out.
He added she walked on but Troth appeared to follow her in the van and then pulled up alongside her.
Mr Clare said the woman refused and told him she was “not a prostitute” but he kept asking her. He also appeared to be getting money out.
He said that Troth then asked the woman for a different sex act so she went into a nearby shop and called her mum, who came to get her and he apologised.
The police were then called and he was arrested.
Troth had been on temporary employment with Royal Mail for the Christmas period.
Mr Clare added that Troth did apologise and said that it was a “moment of madness”.
Troth, 48, Skegness, pleaded guilty to soliciting another person for the purpose of obtaining their sexual services as a prostitute when he appeared at Boston Magistrates’ Court.
He was unrepresented and told magistrates he did not want to say anything but that it was a “load of rubbish” to say he had followed her.
Magistrates said that it must have been a “particularly unpleasant experience for the young lady” and fined him £80 and ordered him to pay £117 in costs and charges.
