A VILE “incel” who sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl before attacking two more young women in a bathroom has been jailed.
Phillip Daniel, 34, targeted his first victim in Barry, Wales, when she was sitting on a wall waiting for her pal.
The creep continued on to attack another two women in his foul spree.
Judge Tracey Lloyd-Clarke told Newport Crown Court Daniel was a member of the “incel” community, a movement that has been linked to extreme misogyny.
The creep approached the 15-year-old one morning in the summer of last year, asking for her phone number.
In a sickening move he proceeded to put his hand on the teen’s calf before fleeing.
The persistent lowlife then came back and called her “beautiful” despite her protests.
He continued his assault on the youngster even after she began to scream and call him a paedophile.
The Judge told him: “You were behind her with one hand on her chest and one around her neck.
“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.”
The girl managed to escape the fiend but he boarded a train to Cardiff and continued his spree of repulsive behaviour.
He waited in a woman’s toilet cubical in St David’s shopping centre and, when a young woman entered, grabbed her round the waist.
He asked her for her name before pinning her against a wall.
It was only after the woman began shouting for help that the beast let her go.
But, as she ran terrified from the bathroom another young woman tried to exit a cubical and the creep pounced on her.
He pushed her back into the small space as she fought back, scratching him with her fake nails.
The vile man put his hand on her breast, leaving her terrified that he would subject her to a “more serious” assault.
She also screamed for help and managed to escape Daniel who was then detained by staff until police arrived.
The sick man told officers “voices” in his head had told him to travel to Cardiff.
When he was searched a Viagra tablet was found in his wallet.
He pleaded guilty to twice sexually assaulting the 15-year-old in Barry as well as the two sexual assaults in Cardiff.
At the time of his foul attacks he was under a community order for assaulting a female jogger in Cardiff’s Bute Park.
A psychiatric report concluded that he posed an “elevated risk to females, particularly minors.”
Judge Lloyd-Clarke added that the attacks had “a very traumatic effect” on all of the victims.
The 15-year-old said in court her independence was hindered as she felt unable to leave the house alone for months and would carry an alarm at all times.
One of the women said she avoided public bathrooms for weeks and stopped going out with friends until she felt confident enough.
The other said she had taken time off work, was unable to sleep, and felt fear around men.
After he was arrested following the vile attacks Daniel was detained under the Mental Health Act until his sentencing.
He had been in contact with mental health services throughout his adult life but “the picture has quietened” in recent months, according to his barrister William Bebb.
The barrister would go on to say his client had been helped by new medication and that he had a support network including a loving father.
Daniel was slapped with an extended sentence with eight years in custody and four years on licence.
Daniel will be registered as a sex offender for life and a sexual harm prevention order will be in place until 2040 banning him from going into women’s public toilets or unisex toilets or having unsupervised contact with children.
What is an Incel?
Incel is the shortened form of “involuntary celibate”, an Incel is someone who is a member of an online sub culture of mostly male heterosexuals.
Incels define themselves as being unable to find a romantic or sexual partner despite wanting one.
The culture often blames women for their loneliness or objectifies them.
The term Incel inspired a subculture that rose to prominence in the 2010s, influenced later by misogynist terrorists like Elliot Rodger and Alek Minassian.
Online Incel subculture is characterised by resentment, hostile sexism, anti-feminism, sexual objectification and dehumanisation, all aimed at women.
Self-pity, self-loathing, racism and a sens of entitlement to sex all also play a role in the online discourse shared by members of the subculture.
