Sports teacher ‘used massage to assault girls’

A FORMER Eton and Queen’s Club sports teacher massaged a pupil’s “virtually naked body” while she was lying face down on the floor of his locked study, a court has heard.

Ajaz Karim then turned the 14-yearold girl over and began touching her inappropriately, a jury at Brighton Crown Court was told on Friday.

The 63-year-old, of Hammersmith, west London, denies nine charges of indecent assault and one of attempted indecent assault against six girls, aged 14 to 18, at Christ’s Hospital School in Horsham, West Sussex, between 1985 and 1993. The court heard how he has also worked at Eton College, Queen’s Club, the Hurlingham Club, and has links to London branches of Champneys and Credit Suisse.

Eloise Marshall, prosecuting, said: “Mr Karim used his position as a member of staff and his role in the sports department at the school to use massage of these girls as a subterfuge for touching them sexually.

“They didn’t all appreciate at the time that the touching was sexual but all say they felt uncomfortable.”

The trial continues.