KIDNAPPER Ioannis Revenikiotis was a persistent sex pest while a student at Huddersfield University.

He assaulted at least four women – but none complained to police.

Revenikiotis worked at Huddersfield town centre Italian restaurant Sole Mio while studying electronics and electrical engineering at the university in the early 1990s.

He pestered women, intimidated them and made unwelcome advances.

One was a student at the university whom he “forced himself” upon and kissed her on the face.

Revenikiotis’s former employer Stephanie Atkinson – who used to live in Holmfirth – ran the Sole Mio restaurant in Huddersfield with her husband, Derek, until 2003.

Mrs Atkinson said Revenikiotis frightened her in the summer of 2002 as she was driving home from work at around 11.30pm.

She was alone in her convertible car with the roof down at traffic lights on the Huddersfield ring road when Revenikiotis pulled up in a car next to her.

She claimed he shouted at her to pull over and go for a drink every time they stopped at traffic lights.

She said he was edging his car into the path of hers.

This happened three or four times until she turned off onto Woodhead Road from Lockwood Road.

She said: “He was becoming more and more insistent. It takes quite a lot to panic me and I was very panicked.”

She said Revenikiotis stopped working at Sole Mio not long after the incident.

Natalie Booth, who had worked at Sole Mio with Revenikiotis, said Revenikiotis had “pestered” her to go on dates with him, but she always refused.

Early in 2002 she was alone in the cellar at the restaurant.

As she bent over one of the freezers, Revenikiotis grabbed her from behind with both arms.

She said: “He kissed and licked my face, put his tongue in my ear and made other comments. Sexual comments. I pushed him off. I was very, very shocked.”

The fourth woman, who worked at the same engineering firm in Wakefield where Revenikiotis later worked, alleged he touched her on the breast on one occasion.