A NURSE was allegedly sexually assaulted by a member of hospital staff who told her she was “his type of woman” and tried to kiss her in a lift, a court heard last week.

The woman – who cannot be identified for legal reasons – said she was “really startled” when Bubacarr Touray got in the lift and stood facing her.

She claimed he said, “You’re a beautiful woman, you’re my type of woman” then tried to kiss her.

The nurse said she was terrified and was pushed into the corner by Mr Touray who then felt her chest over her clothes.

She was giving evidence last week at Glasgow Sheriff Court where Mr Touray, 43, from Scotstoun, is on trial for allegedly sexually assaulting her at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital on November 16, 2016.

He is also accused of behaving in a threatening or abusive manner by trying to speak to her, following her in to the lift and travelling to the same floor as her for no reason and making inappropriate remarks.

The woman said that during her break at work she went to her car and on the way back up to her ward saw Mr Touray at the lifts – who she recognised as a hospital porter or member of domestic staff.

She said by the time she walked into the lift and turned round, he was facing her.

She recalled: “As soon as he came in it was startling. He just stood there, the doors closed and the first thing he said to me ‘you’re a beautiful woman, you’re my type of woman’. He said it twice.”

The nurse described him as having “glazed eyes” and said he was staring.

The woman said: “Next minute he came right over, went to put his face or mouth down as if he was going to kiss me and I turned my face to the right then pushed him back.”

She went on to say: “That’s when he grabbed with both shoulders and pushed me back. I went back some steps, I was in the corner.”

She alleged Mr Touray touched her left breast.

The court heard she immediately shouted, “What the f*** are you doing?” and asked him if he was married and had children, and he told her he did.

She said she shouted again, “What the f*** are you doing?” and pushed him back.

The court was told by this time she was near her floor and seconds later the lift doors opened and she got out.

Procurator fiscal depute Angus Crawford asked: “How did you feel?”

She replied: “I was absolutely petrified. I was in a box, I couldn’t get out, and there was no way I could even press anything.”

The court saw CCTV footage of the nurse going in to the lift followed by Mr Touray, and her getting out at another floor.

Graham Bryson, defending, put to her that in the lift someone “would have to stand close”.

The witness said: “It’s quite a big lift.”

The court heard there was a control panel in the lift.

Mr Bryson asked: “You’re standing next to that and you say Mr Touray assaulted you?”, she said yes.

He put to her that “all she had to do was summon assistance”.

The witness told the court she was taken aback and not thinking straight, and said: “I never even considered anything like that.”

Mr Touray denies the charges and the trial, before Sheriff Diane McConnell, was continued to a date in March.