'Predatory' truck driver molested girls as young as six after offering to play board games with them

A paedophile branded 'predatory' by a judge has been jailed for three years. Britnee Aitken, 47, was arrested and charged after two girls came forward to claim they were molested 10 years ago.

Her barrister told a court Aitken identified then as male and was now planning gender reassignment surgery.

One of the victims, then aged six, said Aitken, from Rochdale, had targeted the youngsters under the guise of offering to play board games with them. Aitken denied three charges of sexual assault and one of indecent exposure, but was convicted by a jury after a trial at Manchester's Minshull Street Crown Court, and was also ordered to sign the Sex Offenders' Register for life.

The offences occurred after Aitken went public about a bizarre legal battle over a £30 fine imposed by police in 2008 for playing a Riverdance CD too loudly in a car. Aitken had refused to pay the fine and in the months that followed, was pestered by demand letters and received six visits from bailiffs. The debt eventually rose to £270 because of administration costs.

On occasions Aitken said the bailiffs demanded entry at 7.30am, and shouted threats through the letterbox. A district judge, however, quashed the fine in the magistrates' court in 2008.

The court heard the offences against the girls occurred between July and September 2012, when they visited Aitken's home to play games. Aitken identified as male at the time. Ben Berkson, prosecuting, said: ''The girls were five or six years old at the time.

''One described how the defendant rubbed himself against her when visiting his home on a number of occasions." Mr Berkson also referenced an incident of exposure through a letterbox.

In a statement one of the victims said: ''I suffer flashbacks due to