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Full Report
 | November 02, 1992 |
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A pretty brunette awoke hazily from a deep sleep to find a gloved prowler at the foot of her bed, an old Bailey jury heard on Wednesday. The intruder met no resistance from the awakening woman until she was 'galvanised' into action at the sound of his zipper, the court was told. Kitchen porter Glory Kwantreng, 31, of Malden Road, Kentish Town, denies indecently assaulting the 20-year-old designer at her bedsit home in Belsize Park. But the prosecution maintain that fingerprints and fibres from his gloves tied him to the alleged assault and other reports of a night-time prowler in the area. Prosecutor Joanna Korner, said that Kwantreng crept through an open window to the woman's studio flat where she lay sleeping in her underwear on February 4 this year. She said: 'At 2.25am she woke because she was aware that there was someone at the foot of her bed. She challenged him but he made no reply. 'He lay down on top of her, kissed her on the cheek, touched her breasts and between her legs. 'She was galvanised into action when she heard his zip coming down,' she said. The alleged victim spoke forcefully from the witness stand and told the jury: 'It was at that moment that I awoke fully, fearing very deeply I was going to be raped and I asked him to leave. 'I told him quite authoritatively and he said "okay",' she said. Fibres from his gloves were found on the woman's underwear, counsel said. 'This same intruder was spotted a short time later by a nurse living at a nurses' home in nearby Haverstock Hill. 'She heard a noise from outside her bedroom window while watching television and saw the the man's face,' she said. Investigations revealed that the intruder had scaled a drainpipe to another nurse's room on the floor above leaving his fingerprints on a ledge, counsel said. Police caught the intruder, described by his alleged victim as African rather than Caribbean, two days later in the forecourt of the same nurses' home after reports of an intruder climbing scaffolding, it was said. The trial continues. ENDS MMMM | |