THE Zimbabwean man who has accused Peter Roebuck of sexual assault has claimed to be traumatised by the late cricket journalist's alleged ''evil misdeeds''.

Itai Gondo - who claims he thought Roebuck, 55, was a philanthropist and became aware of his prominence in the cricketing world only after his suicide - introduced himself to Roebuck through Facebook, hoping to receive assistance for his university studies.

The 26-year-old claimed he contacted the former England batsman after a friend told him about a property that Roebuck had established in Pietermaritzburg, to house and educate poor students.

But Mr Gondo told a freelance journalist in Cape Town that Roebuck molested him when they met in the commentators room at the Southern Sun hotel in Newlands in Cape Town on November 7. Five days later, Roebuck threw himself to his death from the window of the same room after police visited him over the alleged assault.

''I was so shocked I couldn't fight him off and it makes me feel like a sissy and a pushover. This man took advantage of me,'' Mr Gondo told Mike Behr.