Snooker star was like a 'crazed animal'

A teenager wept today as she recalled fearing she would die after “snarling” snooker star Quinten Hann groped and attacked her and a friend like a “crazed animal”.

The 18-year-old, who had met the player for the first time just hours earlier in a West End nightclub, claimed that as she fled his home in terror, all she could hear was the other woman’s screams.

But in her desperation to get away she took a wrong turn and found herself in a basement car park.

“All I was thinking was that I was going to die in that car park.

“Because of the way he was no one was going to get out of that flat alive if he could help it,” she told London’s Isleworth Crown court.

Just seconds earlier he had allegedly been “bouncing off the walls in fury and rage.

“I have never seen anything like that in my life and I never want to see anything like it again. It was like he wanted to kill someone.”

Hann, of Uxbridge Road, Ealing, west London denies two counts of sexual assault on August 29, last year, one offence of common assault and an allegation of causing actual bodily harm.

Earlier the three-man, nine-woman jury heard how the teenager and her 32-year-old friend - neither of whom can be named for legal reasons - had been enjoying themselves in Chinawhites when they were introduced to the player at a reserved table in the club's VIP lounge.

However, as the alcohol-fuelled evening wore on Hann likened the youngster to a Star Trek actress and made it clear he found her attractive.

But she rebuffed his advances and later agreed to return with the others to his apartment.

Gino Connor, prosecuting, claimed that thereafter the snooker star’s behaviour became increasingly “rude, boorish, loud mouthed” and aggressive.

Taking up the story the young woman told the jury that once in his flat the now sockless and topless defendant suddenly “pinned” her against the sofa.

She managed to move away, but a short while later allegedly felt him pressing against her bottom.

She said that although she once again tried to put some distance between them, Hann refused to give up.

“I was sitting cross-legged on the sofa when he grabbed me between my legs,” she claimed

“It was very kind of crude and harsh. Obviously I told him to get away from me.”