The manager of a Suffolk burger restaurant has denied sexually assaulting two students in his shop.

Forty-five-year-old Ismail Hasan, who was the manager and chef of Jenny’s Burger Restaurant in Haverhill, allegedly told one of the young women she was beautiful and sexy and that he wanted to sleep with her, Ipswich Crown Court heard.

Richard Potts, prosecuting, claimed that Hasan had put his hands between her legs and had pressed his groin against her bottom.

He said she had felt uncomfortable with the way Hasan was allegedly behaving towards her and had recorded him saying he loved her and wanted to be with her.

Mr Potts alleged that Hasan had touched another young woman on the bottom in the restaurant.

Hasan, of Murton Slade, Haverhill, has denied three offences of sexual assault against one alleged victim and one offence of sexual assault against another.

The offences are alleged to have taken place in 2020.

After his arrest, Hasan denied behaving inappropriately with the two alleged victims and said he was happily married.

The trial continues.