A SEX offender has been jailed for five years after a judge warned no one would be surprised if he eventually committed rape.

Mohammed Ilyas, who has a record for sex offences, was said to be a continual danger to women.

Judge Robert Juckes QC, sitting at Worcester Crown Court, jailed the 34-year-old for five years and ordered that he be on licence for two and a half years on release.

Ilyas, who was last living in a bail hostel in Ombersley Road, Worcester, was convicted in November last year of breaking the terms of a sexual offences prevention order.

Prosecutor Sophie Lomas told Worcester Crown Court that he followed a woman walking her dog in Gheluvelt park at 7.45am on July 27.

He tried to engage her in conversation and followed the woman to her home and loitered outside.

Ilyas was jailed and while serving his sentence in Dartmoor prison he sexually assaulted a nurse by pressing his body against her as she ushered him in to see a doctor.

Ilyas first denied the offence but later pleaded guilty at Plymouth Crown Court.

Miss Lomas said Ilyas had 15 previous convictions, four of which were for sexual offences.

The sexual offences prevention order was made in 2008 and forbids Ilyas from acting in a manner likely to cause alarm and distress to females.

He admitted breach of the order.

Kannan Siva, defending, said Ilyas was sorry that his victim in the park had been annoyed and upset.

But it had been a futile attempt to romantically engage someone who was clearly not interested.

Ilyas was clumsy in his relationships with women. He had a wife in Kashmir and an eight-year-old son. He was intelligent but confused with a clash of cultures and had been in prison for much of his life.

Judge Juckes said the dog walker in the park had been upset. Both a psychiatrist and probation officer had said Ilyas was not suffering from mental illness.

“You are a continual danger to women,” he said. “You refuse to acknowledge your offending. Your letters show self-pity and are lacking contrition.

“It is a deeply worrying prospect as you cannot resist temptation to behave in this way. You have not committed rape but no one would be surprised if this is what you end up doing.”

He made Ilyas, an already registered sex offender, subject to an indefinite sexual offences prevention order.