‘Groped’ under the blanket

A ‘creepy’ student groped a young woman under the cover of a blanket when she passed out drunk on her sofa after a night out, a court heard. Thomas Rowntree, 23, allegedly squeezed her breasts before sliding his hand up her dress while her friends slept upstairs at the house in Redhill, Surrey. He had joined the alleged victim, who was a 20 year-old virgin at the time, at a local pub on 26 July 2014 at the end of…