An Australian woman has told in graphic detail of the moment she was allegedly sexually assaulted twice during a Malaysia Airlines flight by a chief steward whilst he was on duty.
Laura Bushney was flying from Kuala Lumpur to Paris on August 4 when her alleged attacker Mohammed Rosli Bin Ab Karim put his hands under a blanket and into her pants.
But this is a claim which the 54-year-old has denied as he told police that Ms Bushney did not resist him.
It was three hours into flight MH20 when the 26-year-old's nightmare began.
Ms Bushney wept as she recounted the terrifying moments to Channel Seven's Sunday Night program.
She claimed Rosli touched her upper thigh before putting his hands under her clothing, using the excuse that he was 'comforting her'. She insisted he touched her genitals and then digitally raped her.
'I just keep saying "Why didn't I scream, why didn't I shout?' she said.
'I am a strong person because I can do that, I know I can. But when I was in the moment, I couldn't. I felt so scared and petrified.'
At the time Ms Rosli, who was flying to Paris to join her boyfriend, was curled up at the back of the plane in row 81, with her head against the window and empty seats beside her. It was then that Rosli sat on the aisle seat and told her, in answer to her question, that it would be another nine hours before the plane touched down in Paris.
But something about his behaviour caused her concern.
'He grabbed my hand and told me to lie down and relax,' she said.
'I asked him to get me something to drink. I wanted to get him away from me. I didn’t feel comfortable.
He came back and then he moved my legs and put them on his lap. I felt shocked, I didn't know what to do. I didn’t know what to say. And then he started rubbing my legs.'
After Rosli walked away, Ms Bushney managed to confide in one of the closest seated passengers - Canadian national Sophie Lachance - in row 88.
'I saw her face full of tears,' she told Sunday Night.
'She literally told me, "this man put his hands in my pants".'
It was Ms Lachance who urged the distraught Ms Bushney to report the incident to police.
Although Ms Bushney didn't say anything to Rosli, when asked if she made it clear to him that what he was doing was wrong she replied that he 'started moving his hands down, moving his hands down towards my belly button and I pushed his hands away and he started to massage my legs'.
'I thought by pushing it away that I was telling him that I didn't want it to happen,' she said.
As the assault was continuing, she managed to record the incident under a blanket, as well as filming video on her phone of an altercation she had with Rosli after the incident.
She says in the phone recording: 'He's massaging my legs, I'm so scared I just want to get off this plane.'
Rosli, she said, walked away but half an hour later he came back to the same seat and once again moved her outstretched legs onto his legs.
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