A PLUMBER working to fix a shower sexually abused the 14-year-old daughter of the homeowner.

Trevor Wilson, who was working on the appliance in Abingdon in October last year, was jailed for 10 months at Oxford Crown Court yesterday.

Judge Patrick Eccles called it an “outrageous and unpleasant assault” on a “vulnerable girl”.

Michael Roques, prosecuting, said the 48-year-old began asking suggestive questions of the victim as she tidied her room.

He said Wilson then entered the girl’s room, groped and molested her.

The plumber, who also worked for the Vale Housing Association, initially denied the accusations but was linked to the crime after DNA was found on the girl’s clothing.

Michael Tanney, defending, said that his client “appears today in an attitude which can best be described as bewildered contrition”.

Wilson, of Wildmoor Gate, Abingdon, admitted sexual activity with a child on the day his trial was due to start.

Jailing him for 10 months and ordering him to sign the sex offenders’ register for 10 years, Judge Eccles said of Wilson’s statements of remorse: “I suspect it’s more contrition for being found out and having to plead guilty.

“You express no real remorse from what I can see.”