A CZECH student was indecently assaulted by a pizza boss who interviewed her for a job, a court heard.

The 23-year-old was observing how the shop worked but it became too late for her to get home and she agreed to stay.

Mohammed Nejad, of Eltham Palace Road, Eltham, allegedly simulated sex with her while she was asleep, after he set up a bed at the back of the shop.

She woke up to find the 38-year-old had pulled down her trousers and underwear and was rubbing himself on her bare buttocks at Flippers Pizza in Tottenham in August 1999.

She told The Old Bailey: "I was lying on my stomach and I could feel something crawling on my butt. He was rubbing himself against me.

"I was crying and begging him to let me go."

Nejad is also accused of raping another woman at his home on August 17 last year. He denies two counts of rape, two counts of rape by oral penetration and a count of indecent assault.

The trial continues.