A Mid Sussex taxi driver allegedly indecently assaulted a blind woman after going to her house to collect her, a court has been told.

Michael George, 60, of Stanford Avenue, Hassocks, arrived at the alleged victim's house and groped her underneath her clothes, it was alleged.

The woman told the jury how George, of Stanford Avenue, then forced her to touch him intimately.

The assault is alleged to have happened in October last year at the woman's home.

The alleged victim told Lewes Crown Court that George arrived early at her home and waited in her kitchen.

She said he told her she had something on her jumper and she replied that it was probably cat hair.

The alleged victim said: "He said to me, 'You can't go out like that. I will make you look nice. I will brush them off'.

"He brushed my cardigan and then said to me he couldn't get them off like that and he had to put his hand inside my cardigan."

The woman said George then indecently assaulted her. She said: "I couldn't believe it. I was shocked. I could not believe he would do that. I just wanted to get away from him so I ran out of the house."

The woman told the jury how George took her to her appointment and collected her and took her home.

She told a friend about the alleged assault the next day.

Under cross-examination she was asked why she had not complained about the attack earlier.

She said she "wanted to get away from him" and "other people were around".

George denies a single charge of indecent assault.

John Harwood-Stevenson, prosecuting, said George told police that the "brushing" was not indecent.

The trial continues.