‘I’d never put my hand up a woman’s skirt’

A Sainsbury’s worker accused of thrusting his hand up a legal assistant’s skirt as she travelled home from a West End musical insisted he ‘would never do such a thing’. Edward Boateng, 20, allegedly groped the young theatregoer from behind as she climbed the steps out of Clapham Common underground station in south London. As the woman screamed in shock and pulled her dress down she heard her attacker cackling as he ran away, jurors were told. Boateng was identified…