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| Accused: Jay Steel |
They all separately complained to the police they had been variously touched between the legs, had their breasts fondled or made to touch the masseur’s crotch.
Jay Steel, 60, of Whieldon Road, Stoke-on-Trent has pleaded not guilty to a total of seven counts of sexually assaulting the women at two London locations between February 27, 2017 and April 4, 2019.
The first complaint, a 32 year-old media professional told Croydon Crown Court Steel had a room in a Shand Thames dental surgery, near London Bridge that she visited on February 27, 2017.
“He was touching places only my boyfriend would touch,” she told the jury via her police video-recorded statement.
She said she was face-down on the treatment table and Steel touched her between her legs when she asked for them to be massaged after a recent work-out injury.
“As he went higher and higher I thought: ‘Where are you going?’ I totally freaked and must have made a sound because he said he was sorry and I felt so embarrassed for him.
“It happened again within a few minutes and I was flabbergasted. I made a horribly groaning croaky noise that was like: ‘Get the f*** off me.’
“This was under my underwear and I felt like I was not safe anymore and the person I had come to for help was a bit of a creep.
“I could feel myself tearing up and I was so embarrassed I froze.
“I just lay there like a dead animal thinking: ‘What’s the worst he can do in five minutes?’ I was so frightened that if I got up, I’m eight-and-a-half stone and he’s fourteen or fifteen stone.
“I couldn’t do anything. I was thinking: ‘You’re going to get raped or he he could really hurt you.’
“I booked a twenty-minute massage and got a two-hour ordeal,” she added, explaining Steel then placed each of her hands between his legs.
“He was using the shaking movement of my hand to touch himself. It was the kind of situation you think stupid ditzy girls get into.
“His breathing changed as if he was getting aroused.
‘His hands went into my bra and he started massaging really hard and it was causing me pain and I was going: ‘Argh, argh.’
“I could feel him touching my nipples. I was tearing up and he did this for ten minutes and mumbled something about lactic build-up.”
She admitted not shouting out to Steel’s receptionist, telling him to stop or trying to flee the treatment room. “I was half-naked,” she said. “I was not sure how far I would get.”
Earlier prosecutor Judith Benson told the jury the second woman saw Steel on March 17, 2019. “She described him pushing her buttocks apart and pressing his crotch against her right hand.”
The woman also told police Steel touched her between her legs and moved her hand between his legs. “She also said she could feel her bra coming away from her body.”
The third woman saw Steel on April 4, 2019. “He focused on her groin and buttock area over her clothing in a rubbing movement,” said Ms Benson.
She says he also told her to adopt the ‘downward dog’ yoga position, resulting in her rear being raised. “She felt he was staring at her.”
The woman also told police Steel placed her hand between his legs and she told the friend she went with it was a “weird” experience.
Via his defence Steel says he behaved “perfectly properly” and did not intentionally touch the complainants intimately.
Trial continues………….
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