A PENSIONER who touched two plumbers on the backside as they worked at his home has failed to turn up for sentencing for the fourth time.

Richard Thompson, 69, was due to be sentenced at Oxford Magistrates’ Court today on two counts of sexual assault that took place in Botley Road.

However Thompson, now of Ringwood Highway, Coventry, failed to appear at the court.

Charlotte Frizzell, defending Thompson, said the pensioner could not get anywhere because he was “immobile and housebound”, but a district judge demanded he should attend the court, and issued a warrant for his arrest.