A NURSE was sexually assaulted by a member of hospital staff who groped her and tried to kiss her in a lift.

The woman – who cannot be identified for legal reasons – described being “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 terrified nurse was pushed into the corner by Touray, who then felt her chest over her clothes.

Touray denied the sex attack at his trial Glasgow Sheriff Court, and claimed he only put his arms around her and hugged her.

But last week Sheriff Diana McConnell rejected this and convicted Touray, 43, from Scotstoun, of the indecent assault at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital on November 16, 2016.

The woman said that during her break at work she went to her car and on the way back up to her ward saw 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.

She 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 described how Touray touched her left breast.

Sheriff McConnell deferred sentence on Touray and called for background reports.