Jury take 28 minutes to clear Jewish man of touching woman’s bottom

hackney

An Orthodox Jew accused of touching an actress’s bottom on the bus was cleared in just 30 minutes after insisting he was just rearranging his black cloak. Yehzkel Makowetzki, 39, was said to have had used his clothing to hide his hand as he pressed it against her body while she tried to read a theatre script. The woman, in her late 20s, demanded ‘Are you trying to touch me up?’ prompting the father-of-13 to apologise and move to another…

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