A former aide to Health Secretary Wes Streeting has been spared jail after exposing himself to a teenage girl and following her.
Samuel Gould was sentenced at Barkingside Magistrates’ Court to 22 weeks’ imprisonment suspended for two years after admitting two counts of exposure.
The 33-year-old, of Hornchurch, Essex, who was also a councillor in Redbridge, was seen by the 13-year-old girl masturbating in his parked car in Romford on 8 March.
Gould then followed the girl, who hid and knocked on nearby flats to try and get help, prosecutors say.
He was also seen by a woman masturbating while he was seated in a Mini Cooper with the windows down on Patricia Drive in Hornchurch on 9 February, the court heard.
Mr Streeting previously spoke of his “horror” at Gould’s offences.
“As soon as I was made aware of his arrest he was suspended, and as soon as the guilty plea was entered I took immediate steps to sack him through official HR processes,” Mr Streeting said in March.
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