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Greenock Telegraph | News | Deaf student attacked on job placement
A DEAF student has spoken of her horror after being attacked while she was on a work placement.
Samantha Williamson, from Greenock, was assaulted in a storeroom at Ferguson’s shipyards in March last year.
Today the brave 20-year-old said of her ordeal: “It was horrible.”
A court heard Ambrose Amana, 41, crept up on Samantha while they were both on a work experience placement in the Port shipyards.
Terrified Samantha felt the man put his hands on her hips and then rub his groin against her in the storeroom.
When she screamed, Nigerian Amana stopped her from escaping by blocking the door with his foot.
Fellow students who heard her scream assumed it was a prank between two friends.
But they soon realised it was no laughing matter when Samantha fought him off and emerged in an ‘extremely distressed state’.
Samantha, who wears two hearing aids, then bravely told college bosses about the assault and later the police. Yesterday, Amana admitted the assault at the sheriff court and he could now be deported to Nigeria. The court heard Amana had been in the UK for five years and his asylum application was still being processed by immigration authorities.
Last night, Samantha told the Telegraph she hopes Amana, also a student, is booted out of the country for what he did to her.
She spoke of terror at being cornered in the pantry by a man she never seen before - then having to come face to face with him the next day at college.
Samantha said: “That was when I knew I had to go to police - I couldn’t bear to see him every day at college after what he did to me.
“It was horrible - the room was only the size of a small bathroom and I couldn’t get out. I was screaming and banging on the door but people just thought I was kidding.
“It was really difficult speaking out and at times I was made to feel as if I had done something wrong.
“But now I know I did the right thing by going to the police - if I didn’t he could have attacked some other girl.”
Ms Williamson had been on a work placement at Fergusons Shipbuilders from her catering course at James Watt College when she was attacked.
The brave Greenock girl - who has a serious hearing impairment - insists that she had never seen Amana before that day and was horrified when he crept up on her in the pantry.
Amana admitted the assault of March 22 last year.
In court yesterday, his solicitor, Fiona Cook, said: “He thought he was having a laugh, a bit of banter.
“But the complainer didn’t see it that way and he accepts that his behaviour was inappropriate and upset her.
“He is an individual who misinterpretates boundaries but appears to be genuinely remorseful.”
Sheriff Rajni Swanney deferred sentence on him for the assault four months for him to be of good behaviour
A DEAF student has spoken of her horror after being attacked while she was on a work placement.
Samantha Williamson, from Greenock, was assaulted in a storeroom at Ferguson’s shipyards in March last year.
Today the brave 20-year-old said of her ordeal: “It was horrible.”
A court heard Ambrose Amana, 41, crept up on Samantha while they were both on a work experience placement in the Port shipyards.
Terrified Samantha felt the man put his hands on her hips and then rub his groin against her in the storeroom.
When she screamed, Nigerian Amana stopped her from escaping by blocking the door with his foot.
Fellow students who heard her scream assumed it was a prank between two friends.
But they soon realised it was no laughing matter when Samantha fought him off and emerged in an ‘extremely distressed state’.
Samantha, who wears two hearing aids, then bravely told college bosses about the assault and later the police. Yesterday, Amana admitted the assault at the sheriff court and he could now be deported to Nigeria. The court heard Amana had been in the UK for five years and his asylum application was still being processed by immigration authorities.
Last night, Samantha told the Telegraph she hopes Amana, also a student, is booted out of the country for what he did to her.
She spoke of terror at being cornered in the pantry by a man she never seen before - then having to come face to face with him the next day at college.
Samantha said: “That was when I knew I had to go to police - I couldn’t bear to see him every day at college after what he did to me.
“It was horrible - the room was only the size of a small bathroom and I couldn’t get out. I was screaming and banging on the door but people just thought I was kidding.
“It was really difficult speaking out and at times I was made to feel as if I had done something wrong.
“But now I know I did the right thing by going to the police - if I didn’t he could have attacked some other girl.”
Ms Williamson had been on a work placement at Fergusons Shipbuilders from her catering course at James Watt College when she was attacked.
The brave Greenock girl - who has a serious hearing impairment - insists that she had never seen Amana before that day and was horrified when he crept up on her in the pantry.
Amana admitted the assault of March 22 last year.
In court yesterday, his solicitor, Fiona Cook, said: “He thought he was having a laugh, a bit of banter.
“But the complainer didn’t see it that way and he accepts that his behaviour was inappropriate and upset her.
“He is an individual who misinterpretates boundaries but appears to be genuinely remorseful.”
Sheriff Rajni Swanney deferred sentence on him for the assault four months for him to be of good behaviour