direct to your inboxA man sexually assaulted a random woman in Piccadilly Gardens by ‘straddling her’, a jury was told.Abakwe Adam, aged 31, had been ‘causing a nuisance’ in the popular spot in Manchester city centre before police officers became involved.Asking him to move on, the officers ushered him towards Piccadilly train station but he returned ‘within minutes’, Manchester Crown Court heard.A woman was sat by herself on a bench next to the Robert Peel statue when Adam, of no fixed abode, approached her, it was said.He then ‘wrapped his arms and legs around her’ before ‘rubbing himself’ up against her, the court heard.The whole incident took place over less than a minute.The officers who had previously moved him on witnessed the sexual.
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