AN illegal immigrant has been found guilty of sexually touching a woman without her consent in a city street.

Yuriy Narovskiy, aged 31, denied the attack outside the Co-op in Angel Street, Worcester. However, magistrates said they believed the victim who said he touched her intimately as she was walking along the road.

Narovskiy, of Alma Street, Worcester, had claimed he only touched her hip after mistaking her for an acquaintance called Anastasia.

Narovskiy was sentenced to three months in prison – which he had already served on remand.

At Worcester Magistrates Court, the tearful victim said she was out in Worcester with friends on Saturday November 26, and had been to the Courtyard, Lloyds No 1 and Tramps.

She said she had drunk two or three glasses of wine and was wearing a dress, a long cardigan and no tights.

The court heard the friends were walking towards McDonald’s at about 1.30am when they passed a group of men with shaven heads.

She said: “One of the men went behind me and put his hand up my dress, touching me. It felt like it went on forever, it was probably seconds.” The women said she turned to confront Narovskiy.

She said: “I could see his face and his friends laughing and sneering. I asked him who he thought he was to do that.”

Police officers on patrol in Angel Place drove the victim around the city and arrested Narovskiy in Foregate Street.

The court also heard from a friend of the victim, who did not see the attack but described the victim’s reaction.

Another friend said he saw the attack but Laura Culley, defending, called his evidence “tainted” after he admitted talking to the victim before giving his statement.

Both witnesses said the group of friends were drunk.

Under oath, Narovskiy said he touched the victim but not as she described. He said he had drunk three or four pints of Stella Artois but was not drunk.

He said: “I would not allow anything like that to happen or even think about it. I have a wife and child.”

Miss Culley claimed the victim may have “overreacted” because she had been drinking.

Narovskiy had been in Britain for four years working on building sites and had no previous convictions here or in the Ukraine. He will have to sign the sex offenders’ register for seven years.

However, he was due to be returned to prison to face immigration officials.