A university student who sexually assaulted two women while they were on a night out in Lowestoft has been sentenced to 27 months youth detention.

The two women were leaving a nightclub in Lowestoft with a male friend when they were approached by Clive Mandivenga who started chatting to them, Ipswich Crown Court heard.

As they were walking along the High Street Mandivenga put his hand inside the top one of the women was wearing and tried to undo her bra and shortly afterwards he put his hand up the other woman’s skirt and touched her leg near her bottom, said Lindsay Cox, prosecuting.

Both the women challenged him about his behaviour but he had then put his hand over the shoulder of one of the women and touched her breast.

The woman pulled away from him and she and a friend went into a flat to get away from him but he followed them and tried to persuade them to go into a bedroom with him, said Mr Cox.

When the women left the flat he followed them and while they were waiting for a taxi he touched the leg of one of the women over her skirt and then tried to get into the taxi with them, said Mr Cox.

Also on August 6 last year Mandivenga had climbed through an open window into a house in Tedder Road where he knew a teenage girl lived.

The girl wasn’t at home that night but her mother woke up when her bedroom light was switched on and then off and looked out of a window to see the defendant outside, said Mr Cox.

Mandivenga, 20, of Tedder Road, Lowestoft, admitted two offences of sexual assault and one offence of trespass with intent to commit a sexual offence.

Sentencing him to 27 months detention in a young offenders’ institution Judge John Devaux described his behaviour as “extraordinary”.

Andrew Thompson, representing Mandivenga, said his client, who has no previous convictions, had finished his first year at university and was hoping to return for the second year.

He said his client had behaved in anti-social way after a drinking binge.