A 53-year-old Algerian man faces deportation after sexually assaulting two young women, one who was just 16 years old, on a bus.

Youcef Hamadache, who lives in Poole, pressed himself into the back of a teenager’s seat and felt her waist on a Yellow Bus travelling from Poole to Bournemouth one Saturday afternoon.

Just hours earlier, the married man and father-of-one had put his hand on a 29-year-old passenger’s breast.

A Daily Echo appeal using CCTV footage helped catch Hamadache, and at Bournemouth Crown Court he was placed on the sex offenders register.

The Home Secretary could have him deported.

Tim Bradbury, prosecuting, told how Hamadache had touched the teenager from behind her.

He said: “She looked down and saw his hand.

“She turned around to look at him and he moved away a few minutes later into a nearby seat.

“She was aware of him watching her until he got off the bus, somewhere around the Lansdowne.”

The older victim was sitting alone on the top deck of a C1 bus from Bournemouth to Poole on the morning of March 27 when Hamadache sat behind her and touched her.

Confronted, Hamadache apologised and got off at the next stop.

Arrested in April after CCTV photos were printed in the Daily Echo, he at first denied deliberately touching the women, but last month pleaded guilty to the two counts of sexual assault.

A further count of exposure has been dropped.

Mitigating, Nick Robinson told the court: “He has lost his job and his income is now nil.”

Handing Hamadache an 18-month community order, including a four-month curfew, Judge John Harrow said he seemed unaware of the seriousness of his behaviour.

Judge Harrow said: “This was a very upsetting experience for two young women using public transport.

“They must have been extremely distressed, and you did this not once but twice in the same day.

“It is a small point in your favour that you stopped as soon as they reacted.”