Hotel worker tells of 'sex assault'

[caption id="attachment_40489" align="alignright" width="260"] DENIES CHARGE: Kenyan businessman Daniel Koech at the Port Elizabeth Regional Court yesterday. Picture: EUGENE COETZEE[/caption]

A BOARDWALK Hotel supervisor detailed yesterday how she was allegedly sexually assaulted by a Kenyan businessman who was staying at the hotel while he attended a conference in Port Elizabeth in January.

However, proceedings were brought to a halt when the woman broke down after the defence pointed out several inaccuracies in her version.

Daniel Koech, Kenya country sales and marketing manager for Coca-Cola Sabco, pleaded not guilty yesterday to one count of sexual assault.

It is alleged Koech, 35, touched the 32-year-old woman inappropriately and propositioned her for sex while she attended to a complaint in his hotel room during the early hours of January 31.

Koech was in the city to attend a Coco-Cola Sabco conference. - Kathryn Kimberley