text: Matthew Hall, 25, climbed onto the balconies in of his victims in Manchester's fashionable Northern Quarter district and hid . A fantasist prowler who harassed young women, traumatising them after scaling the walls of trendy apartment blocks where they lived, has been banned from the area nearby for five years. Matthew Hall, 25, climbed onto the balconies in  of his victims in Manchester's fashionable Northern Quarter district and hid, asking when confronted 'am I scaring you?' and 'you're dead sexy - can I come in?' In one case he walked into his victim's bedroom as she slept in the early hours, making off when she switched the light on and saw him. Hall now risks arrest if he enters the area, where each of his terrified victims lived, at any time in the next five years. Jailing him for two years after he admitted two attempted burglaries and one burglary, Judge Martin Rudland said he had 'deliberately targeted vulnerable women' scaling the walls of buildings 'like a cat burglar of old' in a series of 'highly suspicious offences'. Hall stole nothing from the victims. Making the order prohibiting Hall from 'the area known as the Northern Quarter', bordered by Shudehill, Church Street, Dale Street and Newton Street, Judge Martin Rudland said 'we need to protect the occupants of flats.' In the first offence, on June 16, a teenager, who has been left traumatised by her ordeal, spotted Hall hiding behind a clothes maiden on a balcony of a first floor flat at Silver Jubilee Walk, off Oak Street. When she asked him what he was doing, he sat up and 'appeared scared', telling her: 'Don't phone the police, you don't need to be scared of me. I'm just hiding.' He then lied that police were chasing him, the court heard. The victim led him to the front door but a short time later, having returned to her bedroom, saw him again on the balcony. Hall, of Farnborough Road, Miles Platting, has 45 offences on record for dishonesty, violence and breaches . She angrily approached him and he burst into tears, giving her a false name, before climbing down from the balcony. On June 28 a young woman at Vantage Quay, Brewer Street was watching TV at 3am when Hall climbed onto her ground floor balcony. In a ten minute ordeal he twice engaged her in conversation by banging on the window and claiming to have been chased. He told her a false name and repeatedly asked her, 'am I scaring you?', quizzed her about whether she lived alone, and told her she was 'dead sexy', before asking if he could come in. Balconies of the kind Hall scaled in Manchester's Northern Quarter district when terrorising his victims . He has been banned from the fashionable Northern Quarter district (pictured) for the safety of its residents . Police attended after she called officers from behind a locked door, but twenty minutes after they left she spotted him on another balcony. On July 2, Hall returned to Silver Jubilee Walk and walked into another young woman's home via the balcony. She was woken in the early hours after he walked into her bedroom before fleeing. Hall, of Farnborough Road, Miles Platting, has 45 offences on his record for dishonesty, violence and breaches.
target: Matthew Hall, 25, from Manchester got off on terrorising female victims .
  He targeted single women in their homes in an upscale Manchester area .
  Jailed two years after pleading guilty to burglary and attempted burglary .
  Hall, repeat offender, climbed balconies and hid himself in their bedrooms .