A JOB agency worker indecently assaulted waitresses serving at a county cricket ground.

Albert Joseph Tudor was working as a dish washer during a Durham County Cricket Club fixture, at the Riverside, in Chester-le-Street, when the incidents happened, last summer.

Tudor, 26, simulated sex after grabbing one woman, and brushed his hand against her crotch area in another incident. He also squeezed the buttock of another waitress.

He admitted three charges of sexual assault by intentional touching, at Durham Crown Court yesterday.

One of his victims was aged 16 and the other 17 at the time of the incidents, on July 4.

Tudor denied two other similar charges, in which he was accused of slapping one waitress ten times on the bottom and placing his hands round the waist of another.

All were said to have taken place while he was working at the Riverside during a Durham versus Yorkshire match.

Mark Giuliani, prosecuting, said: "These pleas were canvassed on a previous occasion and the complainants have been spoken to.

"They consider the pleas acceptable and we, therefore, do not wish to take the two allegations he denies any further."

Brian Russell, mitigating, asked for reports to be prepared on Tudor by the probation service before he is sentenced.

Agreeing to the request, Judge Tony Lancaster: "In asking for a report to be drawn up, I am making no promises as to what the sentence may be.

"The court needs information about you to measure the seriousness of the offences and to look at your circumstances before deciding what to do."

Tudor, of The Drive, Usworth, Washington, was bailed to return for sentence on April 7.

He must sign the Sex Offenders' Register, with the term to be settled on the day of sentence