Alleged victims of a string 'terrifying' sex attacks in Carshalton tell court how Ramazan Karapinar left them feeling vulnerable

The alleged victims of Ramazan Karapinar, 19, today told his trial the assaults between January 7 and January 28, had left them feeling vulnerable.

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The teenager, of Wrythe Lane, is on trial at Croydon Crown Court charged with six counts of sexual assault, alleged to have happened near to Carshalton rail station, Grove Park and Carshalton Beeches.

Three of the alleged victims gave evidence today on the opening day of the trial.

One, a teacher, said Mr Karapinar groped her as she walked home from work near the The Sun pub in North Street on January 7 at around 7pm.

She told the court that when the teenager approached her she had been crying after learning earlier that day that someone she knew had died.

The teacher said: "This is what they do. They are looking for their prey. He can feel the energy, see if someone is crying.”

After groping the teacher for the first time, Mr Karapinar again approached her and apologising repeatedly before groping her for a second time, the jury heard.

“I realised [then] that his sorry was his strategy. I felt insecure for the first time, and I feared for my safety.

“It was dark and I was on my own, so I started to look around and he did the same... looking around as if he was seeing his options.

"I raised a bit my voice but was not shouting. [I said:] 'You stupid idiot'.

"When I did say that he looked around and he decided to leave because I raised my voice.”

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Two days later the defendant is alleged to have groped another women, picking her up from between the legs, after she got off a train at Carshalton train station.

The woman had slipped on the wet pavement on Station Approach. She told the court Mr Karapinar helped her up and said: “Hello darling, stop,” as she walked away.

He repeatedly said the word “sex” in a conversation with the victim, the jury was told.

The defendant again approached the victim, who was walking to her boyfriend’s house, placed his hands between her legs, and picked her up.

The alleged victim told the court: “He kept repeating the word ‘sex’ over and over again. I was like ‘no’, and he was like ‘please’.

She added: “I didn’t feel comfortable at all.”

“He came up behind me [again] and put one hand around my chest and the other between my legs and lifted me up.

“I screamed and I may have kicked back at him, but I don’t really know.”

She added: “I was crying. I was hysterical.”

The defendant then dropped the victim and ran off, the court heard.

The alleged victim was wearing a hood, which she admitted had obscured her vision.

Hugh French, mitigating, said: “The incident itself I imagine must have been terrifying and afterwards you must have been hysterical.

“You had a hood on, so that obviously to some extent obscured your vision. So therefore you didn’t get a very good sight of him.

“In relation to who had done this, all you could say was that he was foreign.”

The alleged victim picked a different man from an identity parade at Sutton police station ahead of the trial, the court heard.

Mr Karapinar denies all the charges.

The trial continues.