Bride-to-be ‘groped by Dreamboys stripper at hen party’
A MALE stripper groped a bride-to-be and her friend while performing private lap dances at her hen party, a court heard.
The women claim Florin Haiduc, 28, a member of a dance troupe called Dreamboys, put his hands in their underwear in separate incidents in a strip club booth.
The alleged sexual assaults took place during a party organised by the bride-to-be a week before she was due to get married.
The group of six friends had clubbed together to pay £20 for a short private dance after a live show where Haiduc had performed an erotic sequence with a woman on stage, including a ‘Full Monty moment’.
Weeping as she gave evidence from behind a screen, the bride-to-be said she ‘froze’ during the assault.
She admitted she had her hands on his hips during the private dance and that she did not try to pull her skirt down after Haiduc lifted it up. Jose Olivares- Chandler, defending the stripper, asked: ‘Could it be that you were enjoying that private dance?’
She replied: ‘No.’ And when the barrister asked if she tried to stop him, she said: ‘No. It felt like it happened so fast, in seconds, but it happened at the end of the dance.’
Mr Olivares-Chandler said: ‘Are you now saying that, so it appears less odd that you didn’t do anything?’
She denied this and when asked if she said anything to Haiduc, she replied: ‘No, I just froze.’
The bride-to-be’s friend told Wood Green Crown Court that she touched Haiduc’s chest and stomach, and scratched his back, during her private dance.
When Mr Olivares-Chandler suggested she regretted her enthusiasm, she said she might have felt ‘ashamed’ but not because of her behaviour.
She admitted she may have drunk
‘It happened so fast, in seconds’
two 750ml bottles of white wine that night but said she was not drunk and ‘knew what was going on’ at the For Your Eyes Only strip club in Moorgate, central London, on April 30.
Mr Olivares-Chandler asked why she initially named the wrong dancer as the alleged attacker, suggesting she had drunk too much.
She replied: ‘It was very busy and there was a lot going on.’
Haiduc first led the hen to a private booth, where CCTV captures them disappearing for a few minutes.
The footage then shows the friend entering the booth with Haiduc just before 11pm, and being led out by the model three minutes later.
Dreamboys manager Simon Bailey told the court that when a member of the party told him about the alleged assault, he spoke to Haiduc who looked shocked and denied it.
Private dances were stopped and the Romanian, also known as Roman Row, was sent home, said Mr Bailey.
Haiduc, of Wapping, East London, denies two counts of sexual assault. The trial continues.