UPDATE: This conviction was quashed on January 18, 2012, at the Court of Appeal. (If a case is quashed it is overthrown or annulled. If proceedings are irregular and/or void a court will quash cases in either civil or criminal cases).

A PERVERT is behind bars for sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl on a slide in a beer garden.

Fady Malaty, aged 36, approached the schoolgirl at The Elm Tree and Carvery in Mottingham on September 17 last year.

Malaty, who was with his six-year-old son at the time, told her to look behind herself before putting his hand on her leg and up her skirt.

The victim ran inside and told her parents but Malaty denied the offence before leaving the pub.

CCTV captured the incident, which led to Malaty's arrest days later.

Malaty, of Jason Walk, Greenwich, was sentenced to 12 months in jail at the Old Bailey after a jury convicted him of sexual assault on a child under 13.

He was also placed on the sex offenders register for five years.