A serial sex pest who preyed on innocent shoppers in Hammersmith will be sentenced in August after admitting to outraging public decency.

Victor Busby, from Shepherd’s Bush, admitted the charge after CCTV cameras caught him masturbating through his trouser pocket near the lingerie department of TK Maxx in King Street.

It happened on June 3, when the 25-year-old was still subject to a three-year community order from Isleworth Crown Court for exposing himself to a young mum in Primark in January last year.

He admitted the latest charge on Friday (July 24) at Hammersmith Magistrates’ Court, and will now appear at Isleworth Crown Court again for sentencing on August 10.

The builder and part-time DJ was spotted hovering close to the lingerie department of TK Maxx last month by a suspicious CCTV camera operator, who suspected Busby to be a shoplifter as his hands were rammed deep into his pocket.

But when he zoomed in he saw Busby’s hand was "moving aggressively" as he walked around the store.

Later at the police station, Busby told police he had left the house without any boxer shorts on and that there was a hole in the pocket of his jeans.

The court was told Busby, from Gayford Road, had struck in Primark in January 2014 when he followed a mum - who was pushing her two-year-old in a pram around the shop - while flashing at her.

Primark in King Street, Hammersmith, where Busby also struck

He was not arrested until September 30, when he was spotted on CCTV in the same King Street store deliberately brushing up against female shoppers.

Sending the TK Maxx case to crown court for sentencing, Isleworth Magistrates’ Court’s chairman of the bench, Edward Lord, told Busby: “You’ve pleaded guilty to an offence of outraging public decency and you’ve done so while subject to a community order.

“You have a lengthy community order including a programme that’s specifically designed for sex offenders that was imposed relatively recently.

“Our sentencing powers are insufficient to deal with this matter.”

During the hearing, defence barrister Jessica Tate said her client was battling with "deep-seated and deep-rooted psychological problems" but had been engaging with mental health services.

“He needs to maintain the process he’s been making and come up with a way of combating what are quite clearly deep psychological problems,” she said.

Busby, who had been in custody, was granted bail on the condition he does not enter any ladies clothes, underwear, shoes or accessories shops. He was permitted to enter department stores as long as he did not enter any women’s departments unless it was to access another area of the store.