An asylum seeker told a 14-year-old girl she would be a ‘good wife’ and invited her back to his hotel accommodation in Essex to ‘have babies’, a court has heard.

Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, who says he is 38, is accused of attempting to kiss the teenager, putting his hand on her thigh and brushing her hair last month.

He is said to have told her to go back with him to the Bell Hotel in Epping, where he had been staying in the days after arriving in the UK on a small boat.

Police interviews with male friends of the alleged victim were played at Colchester Magistrates’ Court on the second day of Kebatu’s trial today.

One of the teenager’s friends, a 14-year-old boy, said Kebatu was ‘staring at us the whole time’, adding: ‘We went into Tesco and he was following us.’

In footage played to

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