Accused of sexually assault more than 40 years later

A former navy seaman gunner abused an eight year-old girl he was babysitting more than 40 years ago, a court heard. John Phillips, 68, was on leave and aged 17-years-old when he baby-sat three young girls who lived on his street in Southwark, Inner London crown court heard. Phillips’ adopted parents, Pat and Ted, would often look after the girls when their parents were working and one afternoon in 1967 they left him in charge of the youngsters at their…