A man who carried out a series of sex offences involving 'vulnerable young women on buses' in Norwich has been jailed.

Dean Eastwood, 28, 'targeted' women travelling on buses using routes near the University of East Anglia (UEA) and the train station.

Norwich Crown Court heard the 'campaign' of sexual offending included him exposing himself to a woman travelling on the top deck of a bus to the University of East Anglia, in the early hours of Saturday, May 27.

He also carried out a sexual assault on a woman later that same day when he approached another female passenger, who was travelling on a bus to the UEA.

After trying to engage her in conversation he then touched her inappropriately after getting off at the same bus stop as the victim.

On the previous day, May 26, Eastwood was on a bus from Earlham Road to Norwich train station when he followed a woman off the bus and sexually assaulted her on Telegraph Lane East.

On the same day, on another bus which was going from the UEA to the train station, he again tried to engage a woman in conversation before going on to sexually assault her.

Eastwood, formerly of Ladbrooke Close, Diss, was sentenced to 22 months in prison after previously admitting one count of outraging public decency and three sexual assaults.

Jailing Eastwood for 22 months, Judge Stephen Holt said: 'This was a campaign over a relatively short period targeting young women on buses who were going about their everyday business.'

Victim statements from two victims said they had been in a state of shock following the 'extremely unpleasant' incidents which had left them nervous when on buses.

Andrew Oliver, mitigated for Eastwood, who admitted the offences.

The court also heard that Eastwood had an extremely difficult background.