A pensioner convicted five years ago of sexually assaulting two vulnerable women while working in a Worcester care home has had a banning order lifted so he can "move on with his life."

Michael Bullock was no longer working and had no intention of working so the sexual offences prevention order was no longer applicable, a hearing at Worcester Crown Court was told.

He had made an application to have the indefinite ban on working with vulnerable people lifted because he did not want to have to think about the fact that he was subject to the order any longer, his barrister Dan White told the hearing.

Police had been through the various risk assessments and it is no longer necessary, Mr White said.

Bullock, of Livingstone Street, Worcester, was convicted in March 2011 of sexually assaulting a paralysed woman who could only move her eyes and another woman with dementia at a Worcester care home where he worked as a carer for 18 months from January, 2009.

The women were unable to complain but other workers noticed his inappropriate behaviour which continued despite warnings and he was arrested. He was said to have shown genuine remorse.

He was given a three year community order with a requirement to take part in a sex offenders group work programme and had attended every single session, Mr White said.

He owns his own home and is now living on a private pension, state pension and his wife's part-time earnings, Mr White told the hearing.

Judge Andrew Lockhart, QC, said he was prepared in the special circumstances to discharge the SOPO as he was entitled to do if he considered it to be no longer necessary. He said it was to Bullock's credit that there had been no further incidents of the same kind and he had completed every session of the programme.

"You may move on with your life," he told Bullock.