'Incel' jailed for terrifying sex assaults

A MAN sexually assaulted two women in a shopping centre bathroom hours after a terrifying attack on a 15-year-old girl.

- CONOR GOGARTY Investigations editor [e-mail]

Phillip Daniel, 34, targeted the first victim in his hometown of Barry, where she was sitting on a wall while waiting for a friend, Newport Crown Court heard.

Judge Tracey Lloyd-Clarke said Daniel - an incel, or member of the “involuntarily celibate” movement which has repeatedly been linked to extreme misogyny - approached the 15-year-old one morning in the summer of last year and asked for her phone number.

He then put his hand on her calf. She told him not to do that and he walked away but then came back and called her “beautiful”.

“You were behind her with one hand on her chest and one around her neck,” the judge told Daniel.

“Your head was near the left side of her face. She tried to pull your hands away and she started to scream. She called you a paedophile.”