As he waited for police, Mazouz began banging on the outside of the telephone kiosk, trying to reach him, before officers eventually arrived and he was arrested.
Magistrates were told Mazouz, of Charlotte Street, Folkestone, had a history of sexual offending, including a previous attack in a public toilet which left another man fearing he was about to be raped.
But despite branding him a “danger to the public”, magistrates in Margate spared Mazouz immediate custody after suspending a 24-week jail sentence for two years.
The victim of the Ramsgate assault said in a statement that the incident left him “trembling in fear” and that he now suffers from depression, anxiety, and a fear of what others might do if he goes on a night out.
He said he avoids trains and now only gets taxis home.
He added he felt “violated” by the assault and had struggled to be intimate with his partner since.
Prosecutor Lucie Fish told magistrates: “He was trying to get a taxi and the defendant sat next to him and started making inappropriate comments of a sexual nature, like what he wanted to do with him.”
Ms Fish said the victim told Mazouz he was “not that way inclined”, but Mazouz then put his hand on the man’s leg and moved it up and down near his groin.
She continued: “The victim had to take refuge in a nearby phone box and called the police, and the defendant was banging on the telephone box, but the police arrived and he was arrested.
Mazouz pleaded guilty to sexual assault and two counts of failing to comply with the sex offenders register.
He returned to court on July 28 for sentencing.
The court heard he had “targeted vulnerable victims when under the influence of alcohol” before – including a terrifying incident in 2023 when he pushed a man into the cubicle of a public toilet in Canterbury and assaulted him.
That victim managed to fight him off, but later said he believed he was going to be raped by Mazouz, who was jailed.
Earlier that night, Mazouz had sought out men in the city’s nightclubs and made sexual propositions to others queuing outside McDonald’s.
The court was told he has 17 previous convictions, including serious sexual offences, robbery with an imitation firearm, and the sexual assault of a teenage boy in 2013, whom he had given alcohol and the drug poppers. He was also convicted of making indecent images of a child.
He has breached court orders before, including his Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) in both 2013 and 2019, and has failed to comply with suspended sentences.
In the latest case, he was also found to have broken notification rules by not declaring a NatWest bank card and savings account.
Defending, Stephen Evans said Mazouz had admitted the offences early and complied with his bail conditions, adding: “He needs alcohol rehabilitation as that is the source of his problems and crimes.”
“Since his first conviction in 2003, there has been a lack of substantial intervention; in fact, none at all.”
He said his client wanted help and that a two-year community order would “keep him out of nightclubs” and offer the chance of rehabilitation.
But magistrates said they could not ignore the seriousness of the latest attack.
The chairman of the bench told him: “We are concerned by your behaviour. It’s predatory and you are a danger to the public, and you have shown that before, as you have done this to males on more than one occasion.”
Mazouz was instead handed a 24-week suspended sentence, ordered to carry out 20 rehabilitation sessions, complete a 26-session “Better Choices” programme, undergo six months of alcohol treatment, and was placed under curfew from 7pm to 6am for six months.
He was also issued with a stricter 10-year SHPO and told to pay £272 in costs and a victim surcharge.
