A sexual predator who attacked a number of women and even indecently touched a female police officer has been told he is no longer welcome in this country.

Manchester's Minshull Street Crown Court heard how Iranian national Habib Biroj 34, carried out attacks on four different women over a two month period.

His fifth and final victim was a woman police officer who Biroj stroked on the hand while intimately touching himself.

The officer had been sent to interview Biroj, who was in prison after being arrested for the other assaults. 

Sentencing him, Judge Adrian Smith told him he had come to the conclusion that his continued presence in the UK presented a detriment to the public interest.

Deportation

"You pose a high risk of committing similar offences again, and I have no choice but to recommend your deportation" he said.

Biroj, of Tarporley Close, Adswood, Stockport, pleaded not guilty to five sexual assaults, but was found guilty by a jury after a trial in December.

He was sentenced to a total 23 months in prison, but the court was told he has already spent so long in custody, that he is now due for release.

Steven Wild prosecuting said that Biroj, who had to have an interpreter with him in the dock, always targeted vulnerable women who were on their own.

The court heard that he was arrested and charged after two women were assaulted in separate incidents in February 2009.

During the inquiry officers soon noticed he matched the description of a man wanted for a number of similar offences. They discovered he was responsible for two assaults in January and he was then quizzed by the WPC who became his last victim.

The court heard one of his victims was out walking her dog when he came up behind her and carried out an indecent act.

Biroj had been entirely uncooperative with probation officers, and had offered no explanation for his behaviour, the court was told.

Stroked

Judge Smith told him: "What makes me come to the conclusion that you really cannot control yourself is that you stroked the hand of a woman police officer in a sexual way when she was arresting you, while rubbing yourself.

"Your persistent and uncontrollable actions were frightening and upsetting to women on their own, and you were a complete and utter nuisance.

"Your unwarranted attentions have had a big effect on your victims, and though the police officer was made of sterner stuff, this was still very unpleasant for her."

Detective Constable James Campbell, from the rape investigation unit at Stockport, said: "Biroj is a predatory man who has absolutely no respect for women.

"He is an opportunist who, time and again, sexually assaulted his victims when they were alone.

"The fact he has targeted so many different victims demonstrates how much of a danger he is to women and I am pleased he has today been jailed."