Liverpool university graduate molested two women at Edinburgh nightclub
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Salman Hamza was on a trip to the Capital with friends when he molested the two women at the city’s Liquid Room club.
Hamza, from Boaler Street, Liverpool, targeted the the women while they were on the dance floor and approached them from behind. The drunk then sexually assaulted the pair.
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Hide AdThe shocked victims informed the club’s security staff who called in the police.
Hamza, 23, was not arrested at the time but was identified and detained months later following police inquiries.
Hamza appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Tuesday where he pleaded guilty to both assaults at the nightclub on October 7, 2018.
Behaviour 'inexcusable'
Fiscal depute Heather Carmichael said both women, who cannot be identified due to legal reasons, arrived at the club by taxi at around midnight.
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Hide AdHamza was said to have assaulted the women around 90 minutes later.
Ms Carmichael said the women seen “a male staring at them” following the sex attacks.
Police were called in but Hamza was not apprehended until the following February.
Defence brief Miss Taggart said her client had "no recollection" of the incidents while he was on the short trip Edinburgh.
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Hide AdMs Taggart said Hamza had recently graduated from university and belonged to a “very close-knit community”.
The lawyer added Hamza is “utterly ashamed of his behaviour” and is a “member of a devout community”.
The solicitor added: “His behaviour was inexcusable and inexplicable and apart from shame he has very little to offer.”
Sheriff Nigel Ross placed Hamza on the sex offenders register on an interim basis and deferred full sentence to next month.
Hamza admitted sexually penetrating two women with his finger through their clothing at The Liquid Room, Victoria Street, on October 7