The owner of a sports massage clinic is accused of drunkenly coming onto a gay client during a massage and then becoming vicious when he turned down her advances.
Kerry Brocklebank runs the Huntingdon Spa and UK Sports Massage in Cambridgeshire. She’s currently being sued for allegedly sexually assaulting an unnamed male client then sending him a bunch of homophobic text messages after he rejected her.
The assault happened last October. According to court documents, the victim was waiting for his regular massage therapist, Henry, who was in the other room, when Brocklebank entered unannounced. She was drunk and dressed in a black and white polkadot bikini.
The victim was lying on the massage table wearing just his underwear. Seeing him there, exposed and vulnerable, Brocklebank allegedly started coming onto him, lathering her hands up with oil and massaging his thighs and calling him “darling” despite his pleas for her to stop.
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“I felt violated, angry, and just not at all happy about the situation at all,” the victim told the court this week.
He continued: “She eventually moved around so that she was sat in front of me on a stool. I asked her to leave and get out. I could smell drink, as far as I’m concerned she was clearly drinking. It was quite provocative, quite flirtatious. She wasn’t dressed appropriately to be dealing with customers. She was wearing a bikini. She was very drunk.”
At this point, Henry entered the room. He told the court: “She was leaned over so her breasts would have been inches from his head. She looked as if I was spoiling her fun.”
After the incident, he says Brocklebank sent him and Henry a series of creepy texts messages. The alleged messages said things like, “Sorry, did I interrupt your gay time?” and “Believe me, if this goes to court I will ruin the pair of you.”
But Brocklebank tells a slightly different story.
In court this week, she said she entered the room to get some towels when she discovered the client with his “legs kicked up behind him.”
“He looked shocked and embarrassed,” she told the court. “I was pretty shocked and embarrassed myself because he was lying in an inappropriate manner.”
“I think I may have interrupted something personal or inappropriate between him and Henry,” she added.
She admits to massaging the victim’s calves, but, she says, she only did so in an effort to “break the ice.” And when he asked her to stop, her feelings were hurt.
“It just made me feel old and useless,” she testified. “I didn’t do anything wrong, I didn’t do anything nasty.”
As a result of the whole thing, Brocklebank says she was left feeling “suicidal,” adding: “He had always been very jovial with me, I didn’t understand why he was turning nasty with me.”
Sobbing, she continued: “They have already achieved what they set out to achieve. They have ruined my business, ruined my home and ruined my life.”
Brocklebank is accused of sexual assault plus an alternative charge of battery and perverting the course of justice by sending “offensive and threatening electronic communications.”
The trial continues.
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ChrisK
Great defense. I’m sure the court will show sympathy. I mean who wants to feel “old and useless”. Gurl needed some action.
themartyred
UGH! Gross desperate inappropriate! All words to describe her actions. Ya, maybe something was going on with the customer and Henry – and YOU’RE NOT INVITED because they didn’t ask you to, and it has to do with this thing called a VAG, you have one, they don’t want it.
My EX-friend did this same type of stuff to me on New Year’s Eve 2011. She was grabbing and groping at me while all of us were having fun drinking and waiting for the ball to drop. She was mad she couldn’t grab my balls! I eventually told her she was no longer wanted as a friend after many years. She could never really control her desperate poor me behaviors and like this woman, claimed she was old and useless… and? not my fault!
GayEGO
Uhmmmmm…….she would not have turned me on, my willy would have fallen asleep. I had a friend who I slept with in her bed when I was visiting over night. She knew I was gay but still tried to arouse me, but I just laid there with my limp willy and did not move. I did not want her to get the impression that she aroused me. She accepted my turning her down, and it did not affect our friendship.
Ken A.
Don’t let off the hook.
broadshoulder
If the situations had been reversed and a straight woman is groped by a straight male friend – you can imagine the outcry that would cause? Throw her in the tower and throw away the key!
dean089
You’re absolutely right.
dean089
It made you feel old and useless? Sorry, lady, but you did that to yourself. No one can make you feel anything, that’s just a cop-out. Talk to Taylor Swift.
Doug
I wonder how she explains the text messages?
Jack Meoff
Women like her are so annoying. I’ve had to put up with a few over the years. They seem to think it’s a game which just shows a blatant disrespect for who gay men are.
Stefano
I’m so happy i’m ugly !