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SA Police investigating further alleged assaults by massage therapist at Glenelg, court hears

Police have spoken to another four women who made allegations against the man, a prosecutor says. (ABC South East SA: Grace Whiteside)

Police are investigating allegations a man charged with sexually assaulting two female massage clients at Glenelg, assaulted four more women at the same premises.

The 35-year-old man, whose identity is suppressed, is in custody charged with two counts of sexual intercourse without consent, two counts of indecent assault and two counts of indecent filming, during massages at a Glenelg clinic.

Today a prosecutor told the Port Adelaide Magistrates Court police had spoken to another four women who alleged the man indecently assaulted them.

All four told police the man had massaged their breasts, and one said he had touched her vagina.

Prosecutor Joel Ong also said investigators had found 264 images of women on the man's phone and had identified 30 of them.

He described the images as being "filmed without their knowledge" and containing an element of "surreptitiousness".

Arguing against the man's application for bail, the prosecutor said he had previously contacted some of the alleged victims about additional massages.

Mr Ong said it meant the man had the "potential to interfere with evidence" or witnesses if granted bail.

He said given the scale of the additional evidence police were investigating, the charges against the man were "likely to become more serious".

The man's lawyer Marie Shaw QC says her client should be granted bail. (ABC News: Gabriella Marchant)

Alleged offender 'not a risk to the community'

The man's defence lawyer Marie Shaw argued the man should be granted bail as he had no prior convictions and was entitled to the presumption of innocence.

She said the man was not a risk to the community, as he was a contractor at a solar business, and would not be returning to work at the massage clinic.

Ms Shaw also said given prosecutors had asked for nine months to gather evidence, and potentially add further charges, the man was unlikely to face trial for two-and-a-half years.

She said the man was willing to surrender his passport and post a $20,000 bond for bail.

Magistrate Paul Foley said given the "charges are serious" he would only consider granting the man home detention bail and ordered a report into its suitability.

The report will be handed down to a court next week.

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