A YOUNG MAN who showed “not a flicker of remorse” after exposing himself to young girls and dog walkers has been ordered to sign the sex offenders register.

Taylor Carroll, 20, of Rye Hills, Halstead, was sentenced at Chelmsford Crown Court on Wednesday after being convicted at trial of three counts of indecent exposure and one of sexual assault.

Two of his victims were retired dog walkers and two were young children, who cannot be identified because they are victims of sexual offences.

After smoking cannabis and drinking alcohol, Carroll went on his perverse rampage through Halstead for four-and-a-half hours in July, targeting his victims while they were in secluded areas.

His victims were all walking in the Parsonage Street and Tidings Hill area when Carroll, who is unemployed, exposed himself to them.

Carroll claimed he was smoking cannabis in an alleyway at the time of the offences and had been misidentified, saying the allegations had destroyed his life.

But during the trial, the court heard how he told one woman “I want to touch your boobs” before roughly groping her and running away.

Passing sentence Judge David Turner QC said: “There’s not a flicker of remorse or explanation.

“You are 20 years of age.

“You are beginning to build an unattractive record and if your conduct continues it’s only a matter of time, even though you are still young, before you receive a custodial sentence.

“It beggars belief that quite so many people have not got the right man.

“You continued to deny these matters and protest your innocence.

“At least one of your witnesses describes you being on something.

“You deny excessive drug use and alcohol or say that’s not what lay behind this.

“If the probation officer is right that you were in a period of emotional difficulty, it may have been an outlet.”

After these offences took place, Carroll was given community orders for separate offences of burglary, shoplifting and common assault and battery.

Judge Turner warned there would be an immediate custodial sentence if he re-offended.

He said: “Since this offending last summer you have been given the opportunity of a community order by Colchester magistrates for two different matters.

“They tell me you are shaping up reasonably well and I don’t want to hinder that.”

Carroll was handed an 18-month community order to include complete a thinking skills programme.

He will sign the sex offenders register for five years and wear an electronic monitor for a curfew between 9pm and 6am.