Hamda Salah rang the doorbell of a stranger’s house on a street in the West End of Newcastle just before 7pm, when a woman opened the door she found him in his underwear asking for “sex”
A drunken pervert turned up at a stranger’s front door with his trousers down demanding ‘sex’ before breaking into a nearby home and causing damage.
Hamda Salah made the disturbing house-call when he was already subject to two suspended prison sentences, for sexual assault and assault.
Salah went to a street in the West End of Newcastle just before 7pm in June last year. A woman heard her doorbell ring and when she answered, Salah was outside in an intoxicated state and had pulled his trousers down, exposing his boxer shorts, a court heard.
The horrified resident asked Salah what he wanted, he replied: “sex”. She told him no and he leaned towards her home and tried to go inside but she closed the door in his face and he moved off, a hearing at Newcastle Crown Court was told.
He admitted attempted trespass with intent to commit a sexual offence. Prosecutors told the court they accepted the intended sex offence was exposure rather than rape.
Salah then committed an offence of burglary at a nearby property where a man lives with his son. The son returned home around 9pm and went to bed and when he woke up later on, he noticed someone was inside the house.
The dad later came home and they found Salah was in their home and wearing some of the dad’s shorts. There was a confrontation and Salah was pushed out of the door and chased away.
They then found a bed was covered in urine and two picture frames had been smashed. Around £160 had also been stolen from a money box. Salah was identified as the culprit after leaving a blood spot at the property.
The court heard he came to the UK in April 2023 and his status is that of an asylum seeker. In November 2024 he was given a suspended sentence for sexual assault and a public order offence.
In April last year he got a further suspended sentence for assault and possessing cannabis. The new offences mean he is in breach of both suspended sentences.
He was jailed for a total of three years and was told he must sign the sex offenders register for life. He was also given a ten-year restraining order and a previously imposed sexual harm prevention order continues.
Michael Forrest, defending, said: “It’s been 18 months since he saw his family, who live in Egypt. He is fully aware of what the consequences will be of the sentence passed today. He wants to put this all behind him. He is remorseful.”
