BA cabin worker ‘sexually assaulted colleague by rubbing her bum while pleasuring himself after vodka binge’

A BRITISH Airways cabin worker sexually assaulted a colleague on a boozy stop-over, a court heard. Ryan Lim, 31, is accused of pleasuring himself while rubbing the stewardess’s bottom as she slept in a hotel bed with him and another male. BA cabin worker Ryan Lim, 31, denies sexually assaulting a colleague during a boozy stop-over in Rio de Janeiro Credit: Simon Jones The alleged assault was reported to Brazilian police, resulting in two BA flights being cancelled Credit: Alamy She says she was woken by Lim’s “sexual moaning” before seeing his hand moving up and down in a bedroom mirror. The crew went on a drinking spree after arriving in Rio de Janeiro from London and captain James Hewitt bought a bottle of vodka in a club around midnight. Sign up for The Sun newsletter Thank you! Speaking at Isleworth crown court, the alleged victim said she does not remember how she came to be in her male colleague’s hotel room with him and Lim — but was woken up by the assault. She said: “As I woke up, I felt my bum being touched. Lim leaves Isleworth Crown Court in London Credit: Simon Jones The crew went on a drinking spree after arriving in Rio de Janeiro Credit: Pedro Costa Simeao “I heard sexual moaning from right beside me. “He was rubbing my bum. I was facing a mirror, a sliding door. I saw movements of the bedsheets, like a hand movement up and down.” She then got out of bed and went to the bathroom where she threw up and heard her two male colleagues speaking before going to confront Lim. She added: “He became a bit frantic — he could see I was very uncomfortable. “He said, ‘What happens in this room stays in this room’.” Most read in The Sun The alleged assault was reported to Brazilian police and captain Hewitt. Two BA flights were cancelled as a result. She claimed she was about “five-out-of-ten” drunk. Lily Hayes, prosecuting, said: “[The victim] says that at no point did she consent to be sexually touched.” Sophia Kerridge, defending, said yesterday: “You woke up in a room with two boys, you were coming in and out of sleep when you noticed something that could be sexual activity. “At the time you were not sure what you had experienced was something more innocent. I suggest to you it didn’t happen because you would have been in a rush to leave that room.” Lim, of Sunderland, denies sexual assault. Trial continues.