A 20-year-old Sandys man appeared at Magistrates? Court yesterday on charges of intruding upon the privacy of a number of women.

Police received a number of complaints in September that a young black male was attempting to lure women into secluded areas by claiming that their vehicles were leaking or had a flat tyres.

He was arrested on September 19.

The man appeared in court one yesterday and pleaded not guilty to four counts of intruding upon the privacy of a woman to be likely to alarm, insult or offend a woman and did in fact alarm, insult or offend a woman.

The court heard two women describe their interaction with the man.

The defendant looked uninterested at times and scowled at the complainants who took the stand.

One woman, a grandmother, told the court that she was driving with her niece on September 17 when the defendant pulled up to her window and told her that her car was leaking anti-freeze. The woman parked her car in a near-by bus stop. She checked her radiator and gas tank but could find no leak.

The young man then pulled up behind her and said there was something wrong with her tyres.

He explained that he was a mechanic and could help her. He asked the woman to follow him to Fort Scaur.

When she arrived at the fort the man asked her to sit in her car and bounce up and down.

Under cross-examination by Larry Scott, the woman said she did not find the request odd because she felt he was trying to determine if their was a problem with the tyres.

The man, according to the witness, then asked her to spread her legs and continue bouncing. The woman presumed he meant for her to get more leverage by placing her legs outside of the car, while sitting in the driver seat and pushing off the ground.

She told the court that the man then said: ?Those pants aren?t working?.

Crown counsel Shakira Dill asked the woman how this statement made her feel and she replied: ?I knew something wasn?t right and got very nervous. I just wanted to get out of there as fast as possible.?

The trial will continue this morning before Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner.