Hotel migrant assaults girl, 14, after ‘offering her cocaine’ | UK | News
Thabani Maposa’s address was given as the Roundhouse Hotel in Bournemouth (Image: Google Street View)
A hotel expat attacked a 14-year-old girl after offering whiskey, cannabis and cannabis to friends at a holiday park. cocaine, court heard. Thabani Maposa, 45, knocked on the door of a caravan in a park in Weymouth. dorsetA group of six children aged between 12 and 15 were socializing here.
Maposa claimed he was staying with his family in a caravan next to Seaview Holiday Park. He asked the children to reduce the noise. The group of friends, who were allowed to drink alcohol by their families, said they would, but he then invited himself in. He told them he could buy booze or class A drugs and asked the girl to join him to show him how to signal what they wanted.
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Maposa said if they saw him in the holiday park club area, they should touch certain parts of him to get his attention. He put his arm around the victim’s back, touched him on the shoulder, and said that was a signal that they wanted marijuana.
Maposa then put his arm around the girl again and grabbed her waist to show her how to stimulate her when they wanted whiskey or cocaine.
Meanwhile, an older boy came out of another room in the trailer and told Maposa to “fuck you”. The boy threw Maposa’s jacket out and when the defendant went to get it, the boy locked the caravan door behind him.
Maposa, who denied attacking the girl in the holiday park on May 23 last year, was arrested by the police. He did not attend his hearing at Weymouth Magistrates’ Court. It was done in his absence.
Maposa’s current address is given as the Roundhouse Hotel in Bournemouth, more than 30 miles from the holiday park. His nationality and immigration status were not disclosed in court.
Prosecutor Elizabeth Valera said that Maposa admitted in his statement to the police that he went to the caravan, but refused to touch the girl.
The girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said she was “scared” by Maposa’s behaviour.
Ms Valera told the court Maposa was a tall, muscular black man who spoke English with an accent but was understandable.
The court heard the girl remembered Maposa pulling her towards him and being very close to him. She said: “I didn’t want him to touch me. I was really scared and didn’t know what was going to happen.”
A friend who was in the caravan told the court: “He started touching her hip and shoulder. I could tell she was uncomfortable about it.”
The court heard Maposa claimed during his interview with police that he wanted to go inside the caravan and talk to an adult because the group was too loud.
He had told officers the boys were being “nonsense” towards him and that he didn’t care if they were taking drugs or drinking because everyone else at the holiday park was doing that.
Maposa said he was only in the trailer for five minutes and did not touch the child. But he was found guilty of an assault by beating by judges who said the victim’s evidence was “credible”.
Judge Martyn McCarthy said: “We are confident that it was a moving case as both (the girls who gave evidence) were credible witnesses. After hearing the evidence and noting that the defendant was not visible, the court found the defendant guilty. An appeal against the arrest warrant was granted.”
A warrant was issued for Maposa’s arrest.
