A pervy Fife bus driver has been placed on the Sex Offenders Register after making creepy comments to youngsters.
Paul Orr, formerly a school bus driver, admitted communicating indecently with two girls.
The 46-year-old made comments about their bodies and about members of the public who they passed on bus trips.
Orr had engaged in friendly conversation with both girls when they were younger but matters turned sexual on the day they each turned 16.
The youngsters cannot be named for legal reasons.
Sinister turn at 16th birthdays
At Dunfermline Sheriff Court, fiscal depute Jill Currie said: “Both complainers, when this began, tried to laugh it off and shrug it off.
“With regards to (the first complainer), she speaks to the fact that one day he made comments to her such as ‘we getting hot drunk again?’ and ‘who you sh***ing this week?’
“These comments were made frequently.
“He would often comment what he would like to do to someone in a sexual manner – not to her but to others walking in the street.”
Ms Currie said: “As he drove past people walking – members of the public – he’d say to both complainers about these passers by: ‘I’d s**g that,’ ‘I’d put a paper bag on that’ and ‘I’d need a bottle of vodka before I had that’.”
Whilst ogling pedestrians, Orr also said to the girls “Hubba Hubba Schwing” mimicking film Wayne’s World and said to them: “That’s a nice bounce on those boobs.”
Orr would also speak to the second complainer about her sex life.
Victim scared to get on bus
Orr, of Haughgate Avenue in Leven, also made comments about both complainers’ bras.
On one occasion, when the girls were discussing being able to legally buy energy drinks as they had turned 16, he made what the girls took to be a smutty remark about reaching the age of consent.
One complainer said this behaviour made her “really uncomfortable” and scared to get on the bus.
She contacted the police and Orr was suspended.
The court heard he still works as a bus driver but not in a capacity that involves contact with children.
In court, he admitted communicating indecently with the girls over the course of bus journeys between 2020 and 2022 with one girl and throughout 2021 with the other.
‘Attempt at banter and humour’
His solicitor Stephen Morrison said: “It would appear that Mr Orr does have something of a learning difficulty.
“It’s not immediately apparent but I’ve had discussions with his family but they have provided me with this information.
“He has difficulty reading and writing. He is dyslexic.
“Initially, Mr Orr’s contact with the complainers was on a friendly basis, nothing more was intended at that stage.
“He doesn’t excuse his behaviour but when he was making the comments, they were being laughed off.
“It seems Mr Orr was erroneously emboldened by that, thinking he was being funny and that his attempt at humour and banter as he saw it, were not causing the distress and alarm that they did cause.
“He knows that now.”
Sheriff Martin Edington placed Orr on the Sex Offenders Register and released him on bail.
Orr will be sentenced on August 3 after social work reports have been prepared.
