Itai Gondo, a student whose complaint about alleged sexual harassment prompted cricket columnist Peter Roebuck to commit suicide, has come out in open for the first time and confirmed that the former Somerset captain sexually assaulted him when the two met in a Cape Town hotel after days of correspondence through Facebook.

"I was in shock and told myself that it couldn't be happening," Gondo was quoted as saying by The Sun. "He (Roebuck) has ruined my life," said Gondo.