A man who preyed on vulnerable elderly women has been jailed for 14 years for attempted rape and four counts of sexual assault.
Harry Hankinson, 73, had been found guilty of the offences by a jury at Bolton Crown Court at an earlier hearing and was appearing for sentencing.
The court heard how in February, 2017, while Hankinson was a patient at a hospital, a nursing assistant was completing her ward observation when she looked through the window into Hankinson's room and saw that he was forcing another patient - a woman in her 60s - to perform a sex act on him.
The nursing assistant entered the room, disrupting Hankinson, and led the woman out of the room. READ MORE:Police looking for these three teenagers after man stabbed in 'vicious'
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