BRETT WHITTAKER

PREDATOR BANNED FROM EVERY UK HOTEL AFTER TRAPPING AND SEXUALLY ASSAULTING WORKER

A sex offender has been banned from staying in any hotel, B&B or guesthouse in the UK after subjecting a staff member to horrific abuse.Brett Whittaker, 44, was told he cannot check into any paid accommodation for 10 years – unless he gives police two days’ notice.The order was imposed after he launched a terrifying sex attack inside a hotel in North Yorkshire, trapping a staff member in a room and assaulting him in four different ways.The victim had simply been trying to deal with Whittaker’s complaint that his room was too hot, and later told York Crown Court that the attack had affected him so much he needed counselling and medical help, and had been unable to continue working for the hotel.Judge Simon Hickey made Whittaker subject to a 10-year sexual harm prevention order that bans him from staying in any paid accommodation unless he tells police.Jailing him, the judge said: ‘You have a propensity to assault not just young females but also young males.’Referencing the attacks on the hotel employee, he told Whittaker: ‘He was trapped in a room by you [who was] much bigger, much stronger and in drink.’Whittaker was put on the sex offenders’ register for 10 years and will have to notify the police where he lives, among other conditions.The hotel employee had to give evidence against Whittaker as the 44-year-old of no fixed address denied four charges of sexually assaulting him.Whittaker had two previous convictions for sexual assault, but was unaware he had also been convicted of trying to cause a child to watch a sexual act.After the verdicts, his barrister stated the four assaults on the hotel employee were part of the same continuous event and alcohol had been involved.

Whittaker had an ongoing issue with alcohol and claimed he had abstained from drinking since being released from prison.

He had been held on remand for two months after arrest earlier this year.