Shopkeeper denies sex abuse

A shopkeeper has denied sexually assaulting two of his customers. Abdul Jawan, 45, is accused of groping two women in his shop in Ifield Road, near the Chelsea and Westminster hospital. George McKinley, prosecuting, said: ‘He had a shop and the two women were customers’. One of the assaults was said to have taken place in January this year, while the second occurred between July and November last year. The Palastinian dad-of-three was accompanied in the dock by a friend…