Pervert masseur claimed woman's groans of pain meant she consented to sexual assault

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Kingston Crown Court and was handed a 21-month suspended sentence by a judge, reports SurreyLive.The court heard the woman has been traumatised by the incident, which occurred in the therapy room of a hair salon in August 2020.During the trial, the woman said she had researched Stannard online before booking a treatment from him and was encouraged by reading positive reviews.When she entered the massage room, Stannard told her she had a “nice smile”, which she thought was “odd”.In a police interview played to jurors, she said: “When I removed my mask he said: 'Wow.

You've got such a lovely smile,' and I thought that was the first thing out of place."When she lay face-down on the table, Stannard then told her: “It's really nice you are making those noises.

I'd like to hear more.”The court heard that she said: “I started moving my bum and hips away, but it didn't deter him. He asked me to turn over.

I was topless and he looked stoked, so happy with eyes wide open.“The victim reported him as saying: ‘You've got such an amazing body’, he was ecstatic and said he was going to do my front and I thought he would do something worse.”Sentencing him, Judge John Lodge said: “I do not consider for a moment that you had planned, when you went to work that morning, to commit offences of sexual assault. "But having found a client to whom you felt there was some form of physical attraction you chose to take advantage of the position she was in to sexually assault her.