A WHEELCHAIR user with a foot fetish sexually assaulted a care assistant after offering to massage her feet, a court heard today.

Zolly Littlechild, 50, from Borehamwood, had already been convicted of sexually assaulting a number of children by sucking their toes and videoing them, when he turned his attention to his newly arrived nurse at his care home, St Albans Crown Court heard.

Littlechild, who now resides in a special unit for those with spinal injuries in Borehamwood Care Village in Cardinal Avenue, kissed the feet of a nurse at another Borehamwood nursing home as he massaged them, the jury heard.

The complainant, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told the jury Littlechild asked her to massage his back with tiger balm before complimenting him on her feet and offering to massage them.

Unaware of his “foot fetish” the woman put her sock clad feet on his bed and allowed Littlechild to play with them with one hand, after he said he did it to several other female carers.

It was only after she told a colleague what her new patient had been doing that the woman was told to “Google his case” and found out he had a “foot fetish”, the court heard.

She said of the first time she went to give Littlechild a bed bath: “He asked me to massage his back with tiger balm and he asked to see my feet.

“I said ‘no’ and he said ‘come on I do this to the other carers and they always like it’ and asked to do it again.

“I thought he was being generous and put my left foot on the bed and he massaged it and said he really liked my feet.

“He said they were beautiful and that he had seen them when I wore sandals at a meeting we all had.”

The following day, October 21, the same nurse was assigned to bathe and dress Littlechild.

She said: “He asked to see my feet again. I took my shoe off and put it on the bed.

“He started to massage my foot over the top of my sock.

“He was trying to pull my sock off and said he wanted me to pull it down, which I did.

“He was using one hand and then bent down and kissed my foot.”

Sally Mealing-McLeod asked the witness how she felt.

She replied: “Uncomfortable. In my country if you kiss someone’s feet it is like praising them.

“He said he just really liked my feet and not to tell anyone.

“He said he likes me wearing flip-flops.”

The woman told a colleague who asked her if she knew anything about his “case” and that he had a foot fetish.

The complainant told the jury: “I said ‘what’s that?’ and they said check Google and so I checked.”

The next day Littlechild begged her to show him her feet, but she refused, claiming she was not feeling well, and reported him to her manager, the court heard.

She said: “He tried to add me as a friend on Facebook, but I ignored it.”

Littlechild denies sexual assault. The trial continues.