Five women accuse man (27) of string of sexual assaults - Jersey Evening Post
by Megan Davies · Jersey Evening PostPosted inNews
Five women accuse man (27) of string of sexual assaults
by Megan Davies 14 July 202614 July 2026
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THE trial of a man accused of a spate of sexual offences in town started yesterday, with five different women due to detail allegations of how he followed and assaulted them.
27-year-old Abdelkarim Arfaoui denies one count of grave and criminal assault, five counts of sexually touching without consent, one count of attempted rape, one of threatening and abusive behaviour, and two of common assault.
All of the alleged assaults took place in St Helier within an hour and a half of each other in the early hours of Sunday 30 November 2025.
Setting out the case in the Royal Court yesterday, Crown Advocate Lauren Hallam, prosecuting, said that Mr Arfaoui had been out on Saturday night with the first woman, who knew him “slightly”.
The other four women did not know the man at all, she added, and none of the five women know each other.
The Crown Advocate said that Mr Arfaoui offered to walk the first woman home at around 6am. He became “handsy with her” during the walk, she added.
Mr Arfaoui allegedly strangled the woman, touched her breasts and vagina, and attempted to rape her.
Crown Advocate Hallam said he told her “over and over, ‘I want to f**k you, I want to f**k you'”.
When the woman told him to stop, he “became aggressive” and told her that he would not have walked her home if he had known she would not have sex with him.
Mr Arfaoui then tried following and assaulting other women, the Crown Advocate said.
“He left four further women in his wake,” she said, adding that the alleged victims were on their way to the gym or to work.
Some called the police or a friend called the police on their behalf, and one came forward following an appeal in the media.
Mr Arfaoui is alleged to have followed the second woman and chased her as she ran away.
He then allegedly followed a third woman, grabbed her and kissed her without her consent.
He is then said to have followed two other women, allegedly grabbing their buttocks.
Crown Advocate Hallam showed the jury several pieces of CCTV showing Mr Arfaoui walking alongside the women.
She said: “You may be wondering what the defendant has to say about all of this. Well, that does rather depend on when he was asked.”
The Crown Advocate told the court that Mr Arfaoui said at one stage that he remembered walking the woman home but not the other allegations. On another occasion, he said he was blackout drunk.
He recognised himself on some CCTV footage but did not remember then assaulting the women, added Crown Advocate Hallam.
In a video interview played in court, the first woman said that she “just wanted to go home” after a long night when Mr Arfaoui offered to walk with her.
She described how Mr Arfaoui became “handsy”, adding: “I kept thinking, ‘just stop, I want to go home, I’m tired.'”
She said he “continuously” asked to sleep with her, and she kept saying “no”.
“He was angry because I said no. He obviously didn’t like the fact that I said no,” she added.
The woman said that Mr Arfaoui came up behind her and strangled her three times with “significant” pressure. She described gasping for air and thinking that she would die.
The court heard that during the alleged attack, he tackled her and she fell into some bushes.
Mr Arfaoui is also said to have grabbed her breasts, pulled her hands and taken his penis out. She described “begging him to stop” as he allegedly attempted to rape her.
The woman recalled pulling his hair and pushing him away. She said that she considered using her heel to fight back, but she was scared of what he might do if he became angry.
She felt that she could no longer trust anyone as a result of the alleged attack.
Advocate Greg Herold-Howes is defending, and Commissioner Alan Binnington is presiding over the jury trial, which is expected to last for seven days.
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