A PIZZA chef who groped a bank worker during an application for a credit card has been jailed for two months.

Qumar Ahmed went to the Worcester bank to apply for a card. After filling out details, he stroked the woman’s leg and cornered her in the interview room before trying to kiss her and squeezing her breast.

Ahmed, aged 28, of Canterbury Road, Ronkswood, denied sexual assault on Tuesday, October 14, however magistrates in Worc-ester found him guilty.

Dawn Cooper, prosecuting said Ahmed moved his hand quickly up the woman’s leg, hugged her when she tried to leave, before cupping her beast in his hand and squeezing it.

Giving evidence, the bank worker, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said she was normally very friendly with customers and Ahmed had seemed nice when they had gone to the interview room.

She said: “During the application for the card he had said I was very nice and beautiful.”

But he later asked her if she wanted to go and “chill out” with him after work.

She declined, saying she did not date customers. Ahmed was married and she had a boyfriend.

The bank clerk said: “He asked me to give him a kiss before he left. I obviously replied: ‘No’.

“He asked: ‘Why? Go on, give me a kiss’. I repeatedly said: ‘No’. Which is when he put his hand on my leg. I knocked it off and stood up.

“I felt violated and thought ‘how dare you’. It wasn’t very nice and I was really shocked.”

Mark Turnbull, defending, asked the woman if she had been mistaken by what he had done and if there had been any confusion in what Ahmed – originally from Pakistan – had said because of language difficulties. She denied this.

When questioned, Ahmed said he had simply gone into the bank and applied for a credit card.

He denied all the allegations. But the chairman of the magistrates Ed Davies said they found Ahmed’s evidence inconsistent and unconvincing.

Mr Davies said: “There is no motivation for her to make up the story.”

Ahmed was sentenced to eight weeks in custody, ordered to sign the sex offenders’ register for seven years, pay £500 compensation and £200 court costs.