Student found guilty of Brighton nightclub sexual assault

A student has been found guilty of sexual assault after groping a girl’s bum in a nightclub “as a joke”.

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The man in question has been named as 24 year old Mohamed Makhluf. The incident happened in Lola Lo’s earlier this year.

Makhluf has also been convicted of assault after he “put his hand across her throat and aggressively threw her backwards” when the girl turned to confront him.

Makhluf’s trial started on Wednesday 24th September. It took less than two hours for jurors to convict him of one count of sexual assault and one count of assault.

He was cleared of a second count of sexual assault, which accused him of putting his hands down the trousers of the same victim, who’s identity is protected by law.

In a defense statement, Makhluf said that the incident was “just a joke in an innocent sense, and in the cold light of the court, it was not easy to explain why that was funny.”

Makhluf will be sentenced at the end of this month.

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