A pervert posed as a police officer before sexually assaulting two girls in a wood. Aaron Grimshaw, 23, snuck up on the teenagers at Tutshill Recreation Ground near Chepstow, Gloucestershire, on May 22.
He showed them a wallet with a metal emblem on and threatened to take the 16-year-olds to a police station or call their parents if they refused to let him search them. After scaring them about what might happen if they refused, Grimshaw carried out his vile crime, touching their legs, breasts and bottoms under their clothes.
One of the girls yelled, "No, stop. I am not okay with this", alerting friends nearby to what Grimshaw was doing.
Friends of the girls then surrounded him and filmed the creep, who lied that "she consented". He then skulked off after telling them he would call for uniformed officers.
Police were called and identified Grimshaw from his clothes as well as the video recording. He was later charged with two counts of sexual assault.
He pleaded guilty to both charges at Cheltenham Magistrates' Court on May 25 and was released on bail with conditions not to have any unsupervised contact with anyone under 18.
Grimshaw, of Mountview Park, Lisburn, appeared at Bradford Crown Court on September 17 where he was sentenced to a year in prison.
During the same hearing he was also sentenced to an additional four and a half years in prison to run consecutively for unrelated offences investigated by West Yorkshire Police.
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He had admitted to a string of offences, including sexual assault, sexual activity with a child, engaging in sexual communication with a child and making indecent images of a child.
Grimshaw was added to the Sex Offender Register and issued with a Sexual Harm Prevention Order.
In an impact statement, one of the girls told the court: "I no longer feel safe around big crowds and sometimes I feel unsafe walking on my own, especially past men. I find it very hard to believe people are who they say they are.
"Even though I am trying to move forward, the effects on me mentally will always remain and I will always remember what he did to me."
The second girl said: "When this man approached me claiming to be a police officer, I felt intimidated. It has now left me with a trauma and a long-term fear of authority."
Det Cons Caroline George from Gloucestershire Police thanked the girls for their courage and providing clear accounts of what had happened.
She added: "Without this and the quick thinking of their friends to capture Grimshaw on video, we would not have been able to identify, locate and arrest him so quickly.
"I know this sentence won't take away the horrific memories they now carry, however, I hope it does allow them to move on from the horrible crimes that Grimshaw subjected them to."