Zim man denies sex attack

Belfast — A Zimbabwean man has gone on trial accused of seriously sexually assaulting a woman last year in Belfast city centre.

Pondai Bamu, with an address in Johnstone Mews, Newcastle Upon Tyne in England, denies attacking the woman in a shop doorway on September 24, 2015 as she waited for a lift home from her boyfriend.

Prosecution counsel, Rosemary McCormick QC told Belfast Crown Court that Bamu admitted being with the girl, but claimed anything that occurred had been consensual.

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