A PERVERT who terrified a schoolgirl in a park as she played with friends is behind bars and facing deportation.

Amur Alasnoni performed a sex act in front of the 12-year-old - before sitting beside her and touching her hand.

The lewd act happened in a Middlesbrough park after the schoolgirl and her pals had actually tried to help him.

The youngsters were concerned about his health as Alasnoni wobbled on his feet, held his head in his hands and shook.

Teesside Crown Court heard that the girls asked if the 21-year-old wanted an ambulance, and he said he did.

After dialling 999 and hearing the sirens approach Ayresome Gardens, two of the children ran to direct the crew.

As they did, failed asylum-seeker Alasnoni performed the sex act, prosecutor Jenny Haigh told the court yesterday (Tuesday, September 23).

He was put in the back of the ambulance by two female paramedics and continued to behave in a strange way.

"He persisted trying to undo his trousers, exposing his striped underwear," said Miss Haigh.

David Lamb, mitigating, urged Judge George Moorhouse not to jail Alasnoni - who faces being deported to Egypt.

Mr Lamb said he had spent the equivalent of a 12-month sentence on remand since the incident on March 6.

"Perhaps enough money has been thrown at this man already by this country," Mr Lamb told Judge Moorhouse.

"It is time to go back to his native country and reach his goals - to get married, have children of his own and live a good and productive life."

Jailing him for 15 months, the judge told him: "If you are released from custody you will have to sign the sex offenders' register."

Alasnoni, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child.