Just 50 hours unpaid work for the Open University groper

A former BBC employee who groped a colleague while comforting her over an injury to her mother was ordered to perform just 50 hours community service. Geoffrey Wheeler, 71, indecently assaulted the woman while working on the corporation’s Open University output in Milton Keynes, Bucks in the early 1980s. He tried to touch her breast at a time when she was ‘palpably vulnerable’, Southwark Crown Court heard. Jurors heard the woman did not report the incident at the time, as…