A MAN who deliberately slashed a woman’s car tyre so he could offer her help, then masturbated in a supermarket car park while staring at another woman, has had his prison sentence lengthened on appeal.Joseph Scott Royle, 38, committed a string of offences targeting women dating back to September 2010, including making a series of menacing phone calls to a Daylesford store, during which he was suspected of masturbating.Royle appeared in the County Court in Ballarat yesterday where he hoped to reduce his 16-month jail sentence, which included an eight-month minimum.But instead Judge Lance Pilgrim increased the total sentence to two years while maintaining the same non-parole period.Crown prosecutor James Fitzgerald also informed the court that Royle had served just 57 days in custody when he was sentenced last November, not 107 days as the sentencing magistrate had been told.In detailing the offending, Mr Fitzgerald said that on one occasion last year Royle parked in the Coles supermarket complex in Eastwood Street, waited for a woman to go inside and then stabbed her car tyre three times.When she returned, he told her she had a flat tyre and offered to help her change it.She felt uncomfortable with the offer and called the RACV instead.About three weeks later he was seen sitting in his car outside the Safeway supermarket in Howitt Street, staring at a woman as she returned to her parked car.When she got closer she saw Royle was masturbating while still staring at her, and continued to do so even as she drove off.Mr Fitzgerald said Royle had also made a series of “harassing, menacing and sexual-type telephone calls” to a Daylesford store. The woman who received the calls suspected he was masturbating.Defence lawyer Scott Belcher asked the court to consider reducing jail time imposed by the magistrate in return for a longer parole period to cater for a sex offenders program upon release. But Judge Pilgrim thought otherwise.“You have at least 45 or 47 court appearances involving more than 100 convictions. That’s a disgrace for a young man of your age,” Judge Pilgrim told Royle. “You are a classic case of what happens when you abuse marijuana. I’m certain that a substantial part or the whole part of your mental health difficulties come from that substance.”Royle, who wiped tears from his eyes as he was being re-sentenced, will be eligible for parole in June.