A SEX pest who repeatedly breached an antisocial behaviour order by dropping bank notes to entice young girls into his road has been sent to prison.

Stuart McGhie, of Church Cowley Road, Oxford, has been jailed for 15 months after admitting five breaches of the Asbo when he appeared at Oxford Crown Court.

The Asbo, issued in July 2002, bans him from letting bank notes fall to the ground, displaying bank notes to another person, communicating with girls under 18 or causing harassment, alarm or distress.

Pc Dawn Evans, Thames Valley Police’s Asbo co-ordinator for Oxford, said McGhie’s behaviour had escalated this year and he had begun to lure teenagers to the road where he lived.

Previously, he just used bank notes, often protruding from his trousers, to attract the attention of young girls when walking around the city or on buses.

Painter and decorator McGhie breached his Asbo on May 4, May 25, twice on May 27 and on May 30, when he dropped bank notes with his telephone number and the words “Congratulations. Text this number for more money”. The first incident took place at a New Look fashion shop in Reading.

The other breaches took place in Glanville Road, East Oxford, and Cricket Road, Cowley, where he would try to entice girls to collect more cash taped to the back of street signs in Church Cowley Road.

Pc Evans said: “Leaving the money is not a criminal offence, but it’s the harassment and distress that it can cause some girls that’s a problem.

“Some of the girls went all the way to getting the money which he taped to a Church Cowley Road sign.

“The girls were naive and he has got some gratification from this.

“It is that element of being ‘had over’ by someone taking his money.”

Pc Evans said the 41-year-old could now be put on a course of anti-arousal pills to control his unusual fetish and is likely to be put on a sex offender course.

She added: “We’re hoping he is going to deal with this behaviour now, because he has now had his liberty taken away.

“They are going to try to put him on anti-arousal drugs for three months. He has identified that he does have a problem now.”

McGhie, known to the police as the ‘Money Man’, first breached his Asbo in 2003, and has done so several more times since then.

In October 2007, he was jailed for two years at Dorchester Crown Court for breaching the Asbo while on holiday in Weymouth, Dorset, but judges at the Appeal Court in London quashed the sentence, ruling it was unlawful.

Pc Evans said McGhie had racked up at least 10 breaches of the Asbo over the years, but insisted the order was working.

She said: “People don’t think it works, because they breach them, but it means we can monitor these people, identify their problems and discuss ways to deal with them to protect the public.”