Khalid Alahmadi, 23, said he was approached by a woman during a night out in Cardiff but denied attacking her
A man charged with sexual assault in a Cardiff park told police the woman who made the allegations grabbed his hand and put it inside her jeans.
Khalid Alahmadi, 23, from Bute Terrace in Cardiff has pleaded not guilty to sexual assault at Gorsedd Gardens on September 24 last year.
A transcript of Alahmadi’s interview with a police officer at Cardiff Bay station on September 27 following his arrest was read to the jury at Newport Crown Court.
Alahmadi said he was at the Oceana (now Pryzm) nightclub and when he was urinating at the back of the New Theatre at the end of the night the woman who made the allegations approached him.
He said she asked him for a cigarette, he asked her for ID because she looked young and she started talking to him.
At first Alahmadi said the woman was “completely drunk” but later said she was “not completely drunk and was aware of what was happening”.
He said they went into Gorsedd Gardens and sat on the grass to smoke a cigarette. At that point he claimed she kissed him and put her hand down his jeans and asked him to open his jeans.
Jacket claim
Alahmadi said he took her hand away and she grabbed his hand and put it down her jeans.
Giving his statement with the help of an interpreter, he said: “She put my hand inside her jeans.”
He said the woman was shivering, he gave her his jacket and she ran away from the park.
He said he ran after her as his phone, wallet and passport were in the jacket.
He said he ran up to 30m before catching up with her and she was shouting ‘“please leave me”.
He added: “I didn’t touch her, I just tried to take my jacket.”
Alahmadi initially said he then returned home but as he had also gone out the previous night he was unsure which events took place on which night.
CCTV footage showed he was in Cardiff's City Road at about 5am.
The case continues.
see-http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/sex-assault-accused-claims-alleged-10980753
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