Vadims Osipovs is currently on trial at Norwich Crown Court over claims he targeted female passengers on separate bus journeys in the city during the summer of 2023.

The 58-year-old Russian national is alleged to have sexually assaulted the women, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, on buses in Norwich on July 13 and August 31, 2023.

Norwich Crown Court (Image: Peter Walsh, Newsquest)

On Tuesday (September 22), Ian James, prosecuting, told the jury the defendant had been charged with sexual assaults against "separate ladies all of whom at the time they were touched by Mr Osipovs were travelling on the bus in Norwich".

Mr James told the jury of eight men and four women that the women suffered........

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