Man broke into two houses and exposed himself to woman while high on cocaine

A man with a long list of convictions has been sentenced to nearly two-years in jail after breaking into two houses and exposing his genitalia to women. This was despite the fact he was on licence for exposing himself to a stranger at a pub and a nurse at a hospital.

Altaur Rahman, 33, of Newton Street, Hyde, turned up at the house of a woman who had a restraining order against him late in the evening of January 8 this year. Friends knocked on the woman’s door while he hid under the window.

The woman stayed inside and asked a friend to drive to the house and check he had left, which he had. But Wayne Jackson, prosecuting, told Manchester Minshull Street court that at around midnight he went to another nearby house where a woman there noticed him leaning on her wall.

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“As soon as she saw him he slammed his hands against the door and pushed it open,” Mr Jackson said. “She repeatedly asked him what he wanted while her partner went outside and called for assistance.

“She asked if he wanted money to try and appease him and could see him moving his hand around in his pocket. He pushed her into the living room and took her hand with a firm grip,” the court heard.

Rahman then pulled his trousers down and pulled up his shirt to clearly expose himself. At this point the woman’s partner pushed him onto the sofa and a friend who had come to assist removed him from the home.

There was an ‘exchange of blows outside’, Mr Jackson said, and white powder was noticed under his nose, after cocaine use. These left Rahman with injuries before he returned to the original property in the very early hours of January 9.

He shouted through the letter box ‘open the door or give me the key’, before saying ‘if you call the police I will show you’. Mr Jackson said ‘I will show you’ is a Bengali threat, and the woman at this house now thought ‘her life was in danger’.

She let Rahman in and then locked herself in her daughter’s room while he continued to shout threats. By this stage the police had arrived and started banging on the door to be let in, the court heard.

The woman went into her own bedroom at this point, where Rahman was naked and had broken cigarettes all over the bed. Rahman ‘grabbed her wrist’ and said ‘remember what I said to you before’ to reiterate his threat, Mr Jackson said.

Rahman pushed her away while police were still banging on the door. He then forced his way into the loft.

She opened the door to the police and told them Rahman wasn’t in the house. However, police did not believe her and found the defendant, the court heard. The woman was arrested for obstructing police.

In a victim personal statement read by Mr Jackson, she said Rahman has ‘ruined’ her life and has since been diagnosed with depression and anxiety. She also now fears leaving the house.

Nicholas Clarke, defence counsel, said Rahman was now clean from drugs since being in prison and that he is aware of the need to seek assistance with his type of offending. Mr Clarke believed he could be given ‘one and final opportunity’ with a suspended sentence and his ‘greatest mitigation’ was his early guilty plea to the breach of the restraining order.

But sentencing Rahman, Recorder Sarah Johnston, said: “These offences are very significant as you have a number of previous convictions for offences relating to possession of drugs. Importantly in this case the victim was assaulted.

“In December 2020 you were sentenced for two offences of sexual assault both involving alcohol and cocaine. In one you sexually assaulted a stranger in a pub and another where you exposed yourself to a triage nurse in hospital who was just doing her job.

“On January 8/9 you were in the property of a complete stranger. She repeatedly asked why you were there and to leave.

“You deliberately pushed her and grabbed her hand and pulled your trousers down and exposed yourself. The police were called and you were found in a neighbouring property where there was a restraining order against you.

“The restraining order did nothing to stop you and you forced your way into her home and made serious threats of violence. You climbed into the loft space and she was so frightened that she lied to police about you being there and was arrested for stopping police doing their job.

“You were arrested and soon after pleaded guilty for breaching the restraining order. You have been described as immature and have a sense of entitlement to all women.”

Rahman was sentenced to 12 months for breaching the restraining order during which he assaulted the woman involved. He was also given a consecutive sentence of nine months for exposure totalling 21 months in jail.