A LONDON jeweller who got his kicks by creeping up behind women on Tube escalators and slashing their skirts with a pair of scissors to expose their underwear has avoided jail. Instead Ian Dave Rosenberg, 48, of Crooksbury Road, Farnham, was given a six-month sentence suspended for two years and ordered to pay £3,000 compensation to each of his three victims for the humiliation caused. One of them had not even realised what had happened until she turned up at work to find her skirt cut and her underwear showing, City of Westminster Magistrates' Court was told. Ian Rosenberg, who is chief operating officer of an unnamed Bond Street jewellers, admitted three offences of damaging women's skirts and three of touching them sexually. All the offences were committed at Green Park Tube station in January. His behaviour was revealed after CCTV footage was featured on the BBC's Crimewatch programme. Ian Rosenberg handed himself in to police after hearing of the programme when he returned from a business trip abroad. Imposing the suspended sentence, District Judge Quentin Purdy, told him: "This is undoubtedly rather a bizarre case and what caused you to behave like this may never be known. "One, two and then three women were caused considerable distress and others would have suffered anxiety after the news." Judge Purdy said Mr Rosenberg had used scissors to cut up the skirts of the women on busy escalators, leaving them "deeply humiliated and embarrassed by the whole thing". He ruled that Rosenberg should be placed on the sex offenders' register for seven years and that he should receive probation supervision and mental health treatment. Ousman Fata M'Bai, prosecuting, described how the three women had jagged cuts made in their skirts ranging from six to 30 centimetres long while Mr Rosenburg was standing immediately behind them. After handing himself in, the defendant declined to answer questions but gave a prepared statement admitting he cut the skirts and apologising for the distress caused. Defending counsel Carol Kehoe described what happened as "an unusual modus operandi" and said Mr Rosenberg had seen a consultant psychiatrist seeking help for his problem. "This man is sad, not bad, and has never appeared for anything like this in his whole lifetime," she added. "He has taken steps to overcome his problem and expressed remorse." She had said his employers are "fully aware - he's come clean".