By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 11:02 EST, 3 September 2012 | UPDATED: 11:03 EST, 3 September 2012 Spared jail: Hugh Robert-Wotherspoon was found guilty of assault A successful international lawyer who fondled a young woman who sat next to him has been put on the sex offenders register for the next five years and fined £3,500. Hugh Robert Wotherspoon, 54, was convicted of assaulting the woman by touching her in a sexual manner against her will after after Carlisle Crown Court heard how he had repeatedly touched his victims leg throughout the journey from Edinburgh. The married father-of-two from Carshalton, Surrey, admitted 'trying it on' because it felt natural to stroke her thigh after sitting next to her in cramped conditions for so long - but insisted he wasn't guilty because he believed the woman was enjoying it as much as he was.
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Hugh Robert Wotherspoon, 54, admitted touching his female victim during bus journey
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Married father-of-two fined £3,500 and ordered to undergo sexual behaviour programme
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