A teenage girl was molested by a yoga teacher after he invited her to a health spa for a massage. The teacher, 65-year-old Philip Bannister, groped his victim's chest underneath her underwear after suggesting she took her clothes off and lay on a bed.
Bannister, described as a 'pillar of the community' by those who knew him, also carried out a 'sexualised' photoshoot of his victim.
The girl, 13, was told to pose and pout for the camera. Now a judge, sentencing him to a 20 month suspended jail term, said Bannister became 'obsessed with her and attracted to her'. READ MORE:'We feel binned off': Families forced to cancel holidays and police called after easyJet IT failure Bannister, of St Alban's Road, Darwen, has been handed a 20 month sentence suspended for two years.
David Traynor, prosecuting, told Preston Crown Court Bannister's victim was known to him, LancsLive reports. When Bannister invited the girl for a spa day, she thought it would be 'a giggle', the judge said.
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