Trial opens into allegations of Colchester man stalking

Jolomi Nanna approached one of the women as she left a shop in the town and offered to help her with her shopping, Ipswich Crown Court heard.

She said goodbye to him when they got to her house but had then allegedly felt Nanna pressing his groin against her bottom.

She went into her house and Nanna had rung her doorbell continuously for 30 seconds and had allegedly indecently exposed himself to her.

Trial - Ipswich Crown Court

He had also allegedly returned to her home a week later and she had called the police.

Nanna had also allegedly touched two women on the bottom in shops in the town and touched his groin area while asking a woman to go into a toilet block with him.

He had also allegedly approached another young woman as she got off a bus in Berechurch Road and had grabbed hold of her when she tried to walk away from him.

Nanna, of Lethe Grove, Colchester, faces charges relating to six women, including three offences of stalking and three of sexual assault.

He is also charged with outraging public decency, common assault, and exposure. The offences are alleged to have been committed in February last year.

A jury was empanelled on Tuesday (October 31) and was told that Nanna was mentally ill and not well enough to attend court.

Judge Nicola Talbot-Hadley said the jury would have to decide if Nanna had done the acts alleged against him.

A judge previously found that Nanna was not fit to plead or stand trial after hearing evidence from a psychiatrist.

The hearing continues.