Foul-mouthed Wirksworth man scared girls on a bus

Chesterfield magistrates’ court heard on Tuesday, December 8, how Jacob Woolley, 26, of Wheatcroft Close, Wirksworth, had been on a bus driving from Bakewell to Derby when he became abusive to girls and the driver.

Prosecuting solicitor Becky Allsop said: “A 16 year-old girl had got on the bus with her friends on Bakewell Road, Matlock, and Woolley got on and sat next to her friend when the bus was empty.

“The girl he sat next to became uncomfortable and he was leaning into her and began talking to her and she became upset and her friends tried to get him to move but he refused.

“His behaviour was volatile and unpredictable and one of the girls made separate videos showing his behaviour as he was shouting and swearing.”

The court heard how the bus driver asked him to get off and he made inappropriate sexual and violent comments and insults.

Mrs Allsop added that after Woolley had got off the bus he tried to prise open the doors so the bus driver called the police.