A STUDENT claimed she was groped in a lane by a stranger after a night out with classmates.

The 23-year-old alleged she was attacked in Glasgow city centre on June 22, 2018.

She stated that she had lost her bag - including her insulin pen and mobile - earlier that night.

The woman - now 27 - claimed that the man had offered to help her after being stranded.

Lamin Jadama, 26, denies sexually assaulting the woman at Glasgow Sheriff Court.

Court papers state Jadama slapped her on the buttocks, attempted to look underneath her clothing and groped her in several places.

Jadama also faces two separate charges of failing to appear at court.

The woman told the jury in evidence that she had been in Sauchiehall Street celebrating getting her degree with her friends.

She failed to flag down a taxi at the end of the night after losing her handbag which included her personal items.

The woman stated a male “stranger” approached her near The Garage nightclub.

She said: “He offered to help my situation and then we started walking up the street from the taxi rank towards the lane.”

She claimed that they stopped at a fence on nearby Elmbank Street.

The man allegedly asked her to go back to his house, have food and phone her mum.

Prosecutor Hannah Sweeney asked the witness to tell jurors about the “incident.”

She said: “He kept pushing me further back towards the fence and that’s when he started groping me over my clothing.

“I was panicked and checked for anyone else in the area.

“He pushed me against the fence and put his hand in my underwear.”

The woman claimed that the man then groped her.

Miss Sweeney asked if she wanted this to happen to her and replied: “Absolutely not, I vocally made quite clear I didn’t want it to happen. I was saying no.”

She stated that by saying no it felt like it made him try “extra hard” to get her to go back to his flat.

The woman claimed she pushed the man away before the pair walked back to the taxi rank where she got in a cab alone.

The witness stated that a neighbour let her into her building while she contacted her mum on Facebook to tell her where she was.

The woman - a diabetic - stated that she felt ill as she had not had her insulin or tested her blood sugar level.

The woman added that she has “vomiting episodes” and felt like it was going to happen.

She said: “I went to her bathroom, fell to the floor, fell unconscious and was vomiting.”

The woman stated that an ambulance took her to hospital where she remained for four to five days.

It is there she said she contacted police about the sexual assault.

Lewis Kennedy, defending, suggested that the man took the woman to a takeaway on Elmbank Street and she left when he got served. 

The woman denied this stating: “I would have no reason to be in (a takeaway) without any money.”

Mr Kennedy asked: “I suggest that the events you describe happening in the lane just didn’t happen and the accused didn’t grope you or touch your body - there was nothing sexual which happened?”

The witness replied: “No, that’s not the truth. I have a clear picture of what happened that night.”

She also denied when put to her that she could be mistaken due to her alcohol intake and insulin management issues. 

The trial continues tomorrow before sheriff Matthew Jackson QC.