Sex addict Matthew Bushell refused to pay £720 ( $950 ) escort or offer her a cup of tea
He dumped her at a pub after refusing to pay his £720 bill
A sex obsessed pervert was shamed by an escort after he refused to pay his bill and wouldn’t even make her a brew.
Matthew Bushell was jailed this week for placing adverts for topless cleaners online – in breach of a court order.
It was made after he lured women to his home for “job interviews”, before groping them and sucking their fingers.
A court heard the 48-year-old has a history of using sex workers and “strangely on occasions reporting his dissatisfaction with their services to the police”.
Bushell first appeared in court in August 2006, when an escort called police after he failed to pay for her services, then ditched her in a pub car park.
The escort later moaned to the ECHO: “He didn’t even make me a cup of tea.”
The court heard the then 33-year-old was broke after paying out £15,000 for escorts over two years, and had an “unhealthy obsession” with sex.
The escort – who had travelled from Bradford to his home in Southport – reported him to police.
He was then charged with dishonestly obtaining services, which Bushell, of Cobden Road, admitted.
Matthew Bushell, then 40, when he was jailed in May 2014 for two sexual assaults on women.
The victim told the court she was a mature student, who fell into sex work after spotting an ad in her local paper and registering with an escort company.
She received a text from Bushell, before they settled on a fee of £120 per hour for her time and agreed to meet at Liverpool Lime Street station the next day.
Prosecutors said he took her back to his house for sex, after promising to pay her later, then offered to take her for a drink.
However, he dumped her empty-handed in the car park of The Victoria pub, then sent her a text saying: “Sorry. Had to do it. Did not have a penny at the time. Hope you got home safely.”
Bushell’s defence lawyer said he was obsessed with sex and knew he should have paid the woman.
He said his parents explained he was “socially lacking in skills” and they were “at the end of their tether”.
Magistrates handed Bushell a two-year supervision order and told him to pay £65 court costs.
The escort told the ECHO she had wanted to teach tight-fisted Bushell a lesson.
The then 37-year-old woman said: “From the start my experience was quite odd because he lied about where he lived, so we had to drive for about an hour until we got to his house.
“I thought there would be a bit of wining and dining because, as I told him – and as I was told in my introduction to escorting – that it wasn’t just about sex.
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“I thought it would be going out to dinners and events and maybe a bit glamorous. But Bushell didn’t even make me a cup of tea, even though I asked him twice.”
Afterwards as the pair drove to the pub, she became suspicious.
She said: “I started to feel really paranoid – he was acting really cagey. He was supposed to get me the money at the pub, he seemed so trusting that I didn’t even think he wouldn’t pay. But he told me to wait in the pub and he sped off like a mad man.
“I was on my own, somewhere I didn’t know and had no money and no credit on my phone – the only thing I thought was to go to the police.
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