London, Mar 25: British dental hygienist Jessica Davies, 31,who jumped from a hotel balcony in Agra fearing a sexual assault after she shouted for help for more than an hour.
Jessica told BBC that she had barricaded the door of her hotel room in Agra with furniture to stop two men from entering, who were bent upon giving her a "free oil massage" early in the morning.
"I held my key in the lock and I could feel them turning it from the other side," she said.
Davies, a dental hygienist, injured both legs in the jump but said her ordeal could have been a lot worse.
The manager of the hotel and another member of staff appeared in court on Wednesday accused of harassing Davies, with their lawyer saying they denied the charges.
Davies, who has returned to UK said it was "disgusting" that people living in adjacent rooms of the hotel did not come out to help her in spite of her screams.
She said, she wanted to talk about her dreadful experience "because the shame of sexual assault makes many people too scared to speak out".
Davies denied claims by the hotel manager's lawyer that she had asked for a wake-up call.
Daviessaid she had set her phone alarm for 4:30 am to catch a taxi for a train to Jaipur.
But, she said, she was surprised when there was a knock at her door at 3:45 am.
She said she was still wearing pyjamas when she opened the door to find the hotel manager asking if she wanted to take a shower and offering a massage. "He was showing me this oil he had," she said.
When he refused to go away, she barricaded herself inside her room. For the next hour and a quarter "I was kicking the door and screaming hoping someone would help", she said.
"By hook or by crook this person — or persons — were going to get into my room. I'm 100 per cent certain. And there was only one way out, to jump two floors."
Davies said that when she hit the ground she heard a shout but "I didn't look back and just ran", hardly noticing her injuries as adrenaline took over.
She said a passing rickshaw driver took her to a police station where he stayed with her for hours and acted as translator.
"He was amazing," she said, but added: "I don't know his name and I don't know how to thank him." She also praised the police in Agra.
Davies insisted she had been "exercising a lot of caution and wearing appropriate clothes" after hearing about recent cases.
She said she had not been put off from returning to India, but was "never going to travel alone again".
