Man sentenced for groping cocktail party woman

An investment consultant is due to be sentenced today for stripping and groping a "comatose" woman after a cocktail party.

New Zealander Justin von Tunzelman first spotted his helpless victim slumped in a pub alcove after a two-hour drinking session.

She had downed a string of champagne cocktails, including several Bellinis containing peach liquor, followed by five or six "Slippery Nipple" shots of Baileys and vodka.

Concerned friends later bundled her into a rickshaw, took her back to their office, manoeuvred her on to a chair and wheeled her into a side room to sleep off the evening's excesses.

But London Southwark Crown Court heard the defendant, 38, who worked for an asset management firm, accompanied them and within minutes of the woman being left on her own, sneaked in to join her.

Then, after making sure no one was looking, he got undressed, stripped the unsuspecting woman and groped her.

Von Tunzelman, of Blythe Vale, Catford, south east London, was convicted of one count of sexual assault last summer.