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A college tutor grabbed a female students' breasts, told her she had a "peachy bum" and offered to pay her £30 to take her underwear off in public, a court has heard.

Ian Jones, 45, is accused of 18 charges of sexual assault against five girls which are said to have taken place between 2008 and 2012.

A court heard Jones targeted the girls while teaching a motor vehicle repair course in Nuneaton, Warks.

Warwick Crown Court heard Jones, of Sutton Coldfield, West Mids., was arrested in 2012 following an incident with a girl at the college.

Prosecutor Graeme Simpson said: "The nature of the allegations is what one might call bullying, abusing his position of trust, but in each case it was overtly sexual.

"He walked up to her and put his hand into her coat pocket and moved his hand and touched the crotch of her jeans. She asked what he was doing, and he said he was looking for fags.

"Then when she bent over to pick up her bag, he put his hands on her breasts and tried to pull her backwards."

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The court heard that after the girl had pulled away from him and gone outside, she sat crying and shaking for a few minutes and then phoned her boyfriend and told him what had happened.

He advised her to tell her own tutor and she was referred to the college's safeguarding team where a meeting was arranged.

The jury was told how on one occasion, he slapped her bottom and said "nice peachy bum".

The girl told the jury: "At first he seemed the same as my teachers but then I noticed a change in the way he behaved towards me.

"He began looking me up and down and making comments, which made me feel not very nice, nervous."

She said there was an incident when she had been talking to some of Jones's students, and as she was leaving he slapped her bottom and commented: "That's as nice peachy bum."

She added: "I said 'I know it is,' but I found it quite disgusting. No-one has the right to do that.

"The next day I told my tutor. He told me I needed to report it, but I didn't want to report it at the time. I thought I could handle it myself. I didn't want to make a big fuss."

But a few weeks later she said she was talking to friends at lunchtime when Jones walked over to her.

She said: "He pulled the front part of my top forward towards him and leaned forward so he could look down my top. I told him to get off. He said 'they look good today.' I felt violated."

On another occasion she said Jones, who was with another lecturer, saw her on the college car park and told her he could see her knickers through her skirt.

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She said: "He said he would give me money if I took my pants off and gave them to him. He took out his wallet and took £20 and £10 out and offered to give it to me."

Jones is also accused of lifting up another girl's top "exposing her bra and breasts in front of her classmates," the girl told the court.

She added: "I felt guilty because he'd done things to me I should have reported earlier. If I had, maybe he wouldn't have done that to her."

After that, she said there was an incident when he approached her from behind, pushed her so she was bending over and pushed himself against her as if simulating intercourse.

She said: "I stood up and turned to face him. He put one of his hands in my coat pocket. He tried to push his hand down towards my crotch area.

"I managed to pull that hand out, and he tried to put his other hand in my other pocket and I grabbed it to stop him.

"I just wanted to get out of the room because he had unnerved me. I turned round and bent over to pick up my bag and I felt both of his hands with some force grab both of my breasts.

"It took me a while to get his hands off. I left. I was shaking and crying. It shook me up."

Mr Simpson said there was a further incident where Jones grabbed the girl's thong and commented on its colour.

When police launched an investigation three other girls came forward to make allegations against Jones.

Mr Simpson said Jones had described another girl's breasts as "a couple of airbags", while on another occasion smacked her bottom with a ruler.

Jones denies the charges. The trial continues.