A 76-YEAR-OLD sex pest, who preyed on women out walking their dogs, is still protesting his innocence despite being found guilty of offences against three victims.

When sentenced at Dunfermline Sheriff Court, Ronald Leyman was ordered to pay £1,300 in compensation and placed on the sex offenders register for seven years, he was given a supervision order for two years and will be subject to a restriction of liberty order for nine months.

Sheriff Charles MacNair told the pensioner that he had clearly caused his victims “stress”.

Leyman committed one of the crimes in a supermarket against a woman he had previously seen walking her dog. He shocked the shopper by saying he wanted sex with her.

In another incident, he sexually assaulted a woman as she walked her dog in a secluded country area.

In his trial at Dunfermline Sheriff Court, Leyman made bizarre claims that two of the women, aged in their 30s and 40s, had repeatedly made sexual gestures to him for years, any time they saw him.

Leyman, of Robert Smith Court, Lumphinnans, was found guilty of three charges last month, although he still protests his innocence.

On July 2, 2012, at Asda Halbeath, he sexually assaulted a woman by directing a sexual verbal communication at her, made sexualised comments to her and asked her for sexual intercourse.

Between August 1-21 at Robert Smith Court, he sexually assaulted a second woman by repeatedly thrusting his genital area towards her head and made a sexual comment to her by asking her to pat him. He acted in this way when the woman patted his dog.

On August 21, at Lumphinnans Road, Lochgelly, he sexually assaulted a third woman by touching her waist and buttocks, made a sexual verbal communication to her and made a suggestive sexual comment to her.

The trial heard that Leyman would pester women regularly as they walked their dogs in the Lumphinnans area, repeatedly giving them unwanted attention.

Defence solicitor Roshni Joshi said Leyman had found the matter “extremely” difficult and the experience had clearly taken its toll on him.