Youtube gooser escapes fine

A BLOKE WHO PINCHED the bum of a Channel 4 News reporter as she tried to deliver a report escaped with a slap on the wrist.

Rufus Burdett was only cautioned by the plod and avoided an £80 fixed-penalty notice for a public order offence.

He nipped reporter Sue Turton's Aris as she she was burbling on about the floods in Oxford last week.

The clip of the incident became a hit on Youtube amassing some 380,000 hits, according to the Guardian.

Turton said she, "found the matter quite humiliating and somewhat disrespectful to the plight of those I was reporting about."

"Male reporters would never be treated to a public goosing," she claimed, unconvincingly.

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