Intruder stroked victim as she slept near baby

A TERRIFYING sexual predator from Huddersfield stole sex toys and watched over a woman while she slept with her baby before stroking her foot.

- By SOPHIE CORCORAN

Ference Bogdan was given a lengthy jail term

Ference Bogdan, 33, of Pollard Street, targeted two women during his campaign of terror which saw him sneak into their homes and steal sex toys and rearrange their underwear.

The first woman he targeted noticed her personal items were missing after he went into her home in November 2023.

Prosecutor Jayne Beckett told Leeds Crown Court on Friday, November 7: “The woman rented a studio in Huddersfield.

“On the first of November 2023, at around 1pm, she went out to the shops. She locked her own door and returned around 7.30pm.

“Her studio door was closed but not locked but she didn’t process at the time. Her items from her bedside table were not in the drawer. It had been rummaged through and there was underwear, condoms, lube and books on the floor.

“She was concerned by that but didn’t take action. The next day she looked for a black cosmetics bag in which she kept her sex toys and couldn't find it. She called the police and reported it and changed her locks.”

On the evening of November 24, 2023, the woman went to bed, leaving a side window open.

At around 5.30am, she stirred and heard a “rustling noise” before a feeling came over her that she was being watched.

Ms Beckett said: “He was watching her. She was in complete shock and shouted, it was something like ‘Get the f*** out, go, go go’ She thought the defendant spoke to her. He then retreated through the side window which must have allowed him to enter. She processed her situation, and in her words ‘freaked out’ and called the police.”

The court heard the woman identified items seized from Bogdan’s home as hers.

Ms Beckett said of another woman targeted by Bogdan: “Around two weeks before the second burglary she noticed that her Samsung tablet and her adult toys, which were kept in a drawstring bag, had gone missing.