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| Michael Foot alias used by feet fetish man A 25-year-old hospital janitor telephoned women advertising in Horse and Hounds magazine and asked them about their feet, a court has been told. Richard William Cove pleaded guilty at Wellingborough magistrates court of causing a public nuisance by making 63 calls to 19 different women. However, Michael Joyce, prosecuting, said Cove had told police in interview he made thousands of calls. Mr Joyce said: "He told police there was nothing sexual in his actions and that he got no sexual gratification. He said he had been into feet since he was quite small." He went on to describe how Cove would scour the advertising pages of the equestrian and hunting magazine Horse and Hounds looking for women selling horses before calling them. He would then ring and while pretending to be interested in making a sale would steer the conversation around to the women's feet, before asking what size shoes they wore, if their feet gave them trouble and even if they smelled. Mr Joyce added that sometimes Cove would disguise his voice and give a false name, Michael Foot. He added that while some of Cove's victims had been able to laugh the experience off others had felt very distressed and frightened by his behaviour. Selwyn Shapiro, defending Cove, of Cedar Avenue, Worthing, Sussex, said his client had learning difficulties and had suffered a traumatic family loss at an early age, which may have been a trigger for his actions. Sentencing Cove to 80 hours community service, District Judge Jan Jellema, said a psychiatric report on Cove suggested he was not a danger to the public: "The report conclusion is simply that you are a foot fetishist. Of course it is the way that you chose to pursue that fetish that has seen you brought before a criminal court." 14th January 2002 |
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