A horny old man has been found guilty of sexual assault after groping another man who he mistook for being gay at a truck stop in the U.K.
82-year-old Dennis Cockerill told a York Crown Court that he was just looking for “a bit of fun” when he pulled into a truck stop in Hammerton Green, an area located in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England, on September 24, 2013.
He approached another man, who The Mirror describes as “a burly lorry driver in his 40s,” assuming he, too, was looking for sex.
The man was sitting by himself in his truck. Cockerill walked over and struck up conversation. After a few minutes, he reached in through the open window and caressed the man’s arm and his knee before grabbing hold of his balls.
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The man, horrified, pushed Cockerill away and phoned police. When they arrived, Cockerill told officers that he’d heard this was a cruising area and he’s only come to “verify” the rumors were true.
Police charged the handy 82-year-old with sexual assault. Last Thursday, he appeared before a York Crown Court.
Here’s how his victim, whose name has not beed released, described the event:
“He asked me about the bunk in the back of the truck and within minutes the hand came through. He touched my thigh near my knee then slid straight up and made contact with my privates. I said I suggest you go away. I humored him at first because he was old and I have a lot of respect for old people.”
A jury found Cockerill guilty of sexual assault. Judge Jacqueline Davies sentenced the 82-year-old to probation and ordered him to register a sex offender.
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Luis H. Lopez
Truck stop? Why not go to a gay pub or online website hook up?
Ron Jackson
More ageism from Queerty. This wouldn’t be here if the guy hadn’t been 82. Shame on you.
jason smeds
Most of the men who go to cruising areas are not gay-identifying. They are simply men looking for a good time in the form of a brief, anonymous sexual encounter that will produce orgasm. It’s the orgasm they’re looking for.
Many such men are married to women but find that their wives do not give them that impulsive, animalistic pleasure that another man can. Only men can do it to each other on the spur of the moment and for no cost at all.
Milk
@Luis H. Lopez: For an 82 year old? Gay pub? Online? Wait til you are 82 and tell me how it will work out for you.
onthemark
@Ron Jackson: Well, his name IS C*ckerill. Ha ha. Ironically, when I put his name in here, the Queerty bot actually auto-flagged it. Now THAT’s funny.
@jason smeds: Gee, Uncle Jason, tell us again how you can’t get HIV at truck stops because the men there are not in “the gay scene”! (Whatever the heck that is.)
Ummmm Yeah
So he had time to work his way from the arm to the knee up to the goods before the guy said anything? That’s a lot of humoring the elderly.
Michael Whiting
Hahahahai…..I hope I’m that mad when I’m older….but isn’t the truck driver high up in the air and how did the old man get up there….hmmm
Daniel Modaff
Even if the trucker was gay, that doesn’t mean he wants to be fondled at a truck stop. Gays have standards, too. We aren’t always looking for sex.
Arcamenel
Yeah I don’t get the part about humoring the guy. Anyway I hope I don’t have to be looking for anonymous sex at that age assuming I live to see it.
NoCagada
@jason smeds: Well, you finally had a complete thought even if it does captitalize on your sex life.
Dale Landefeld
82 and horney….give him a break….in court
1EqualityUSA
NoCagada, Standing drop-kick.
crowebobby
Register as a “sex offender” for trying to group a burly man in his 40’s?! Why not charge him with rape? Has Jacqueline never been in a rush-hour subway car in any major city in the world or stayed late at an office party with an open bar? In terms of proportionate punishments, throwing sodomites for the highest building in the city no longer seems quite so outrageous.
jwtraveler
So this horny old man becomes a convicted sex offender for touching a trucker. But if a young guy rapes a woman, she gets blamed for “asking for it”, “crying rape after regretting consensual sex” or “ruining his life”. This is more than a double standard.
Saint Law
@NoCagada: Posting his overheated fantasies on Queerty while he tugs his chipolata IS the Jason Smegs troll’s sex life.
Wooly
82 and still interested, God bless him. The judge was too harsh. Sex offender indeed.
mmichael_24
Serves him right. The consequence fits the crime