A NURSE has gone on trial accused of sexually assaulting a colleague as they treated a dying patient.
Dennis Chua, 42, was working at Prince Philip Hospital in Llanelli when he is alleged to have grabbed the woman, held her and sexually assaulted her.
She told the jury at Swansea Crown Court that Chua touched her breasts and put his hand down the back of her trouser waistband.
The pair were working a night shift and seeing to patients together in a section of the ward when the assault is alleged to have happened.
She said he had already told her "I really fancy a ****" while they were seeing to another patient, but she thought she had misheard him so they carried on with their duties.
As they finished treating another male patient in a private cubicle, who the court was told was dying, the woman, who cannot be identified, said the accused pushed her to the wall and told her "I'm horny". "I told him to get off me," said the woman. "He told me to keep my voice down and was getting me to be quiet," she added.
She said Chua kept telling her he wanted a hug and pushed himself on her.
"I kept telling him to get off me. I don't know how many times I told him," she said but said he continued to try kiss her neck.
She said she reminded him he was married in the hope he would stop but he continued.
"I thought he was going to rape me," the woman said.
"I felt disgusted," she said.
She said after the attack she continued her shift, completing the last three hours and it was only on her journey home that she realised what had happened to her that she became upset before making her formal complaint.
Defence barrister Caroline Rees said Chua said he had given the woman a spontaneous hug but there was no intentional contact with her breasts. He said any contact was from his nurses's torch which was in a pocket in his tunic.
Ms Rees said Chua, of Brynsierfel, Llanelli, claimed the woman had been overly friendly with him as the pair sat at the nurses' station before the incident, and they had hugged.
Chua said the incident came to an end without any argument.
"I suggest you overstepped the mark and you're ashamed of your behaviour and that's what upset you and made you make that complaint?" asked Ms Rees.
"I did nothing wrong and I didn't deserve what he did to me.
"He's changed me as a person since," the woman replied, through tears.
The trial continues.
