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To the women he groped and grunted at, Thomasz Stepniowski's sleazy behaviour was no laughing matter. But for the 24-year-old Pole it was all perfectly acceptable. This, he claimed, was because such "cultural naughtiness" is entirely normal in Eastern Europe. And a court heard the factory worker - dubbed the Polish Borat by neighbours - was even backed by his female interpreter during a police interview. The case bears a startling resemblance to the sexist antics of the Kazakhstani TV presenter, the main character in comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's hit film. But wheras Borat's demeaning attitude to women is drawing...