A YOUNG STUDENT WAS REPEATEDLY RAPED OVER A PERIOD

A YOUNG STUDENT WAS REPEATEDLY RAPED OVER A PERIOD OF SIX

MONTHS BY THE MAN SHE CALLED ‘DAD’, AN OLD BAILEY JURY HEARD TODAY

(TUESDAY).

AND THE COURT WAS FORCED TO ADJOURN MINUTES AFTER THE 18

YEAR OLD VICTIM BEGAN GIVING EVIDENCE WHEN SHE WAS TOO DISTRESSED TO

CONTINUE.

HER 52 YEAR OLD STEPFATHER ALLEGEDLY BEGAN MOLESTING THE

TEENAGER IN SEPTEMBER 1986.

‘HE WOULD BEGIN THESE OFFENCES BY SNEAKING UP BEHIND HER,

FOR INSTANCE, WHILE SHE WAS IN THE BATHROOM OR WHILE SHE WAS IN BED

AND INDECENTLY ASSAULTING HER,’ SAID MR OLIVER SELLS PROSECUTING.

HE REGULARLY LAY IN WAIT FOR HER AT THEIR CAMDEN HOME ON

FRIDAY AFTERNOONS KNOWING SHE WOULD NOT HAVE TO GO TO COLLEGE AT

THOSE TIMES.

ON ONE OCCASION, IT WAS ALLEGED HE FOLLOWED HER INTO HER

BEDROOM AND TRIED TO PULL OFF HER SKIRT AND KNICKERS SAYING: ‘I WANT

TO HAVE SEX.

”

IN NOVEMBER 1986 SHE RETURNED HOME FROM COLLEGE TO FIND THE

DEFENDANT LYING IN A DOUBLE BED NAKED.

HE SEIZED HER AND PULLED HER DOWN ONTO THE BED.

‘SHE LAY

THERE LIKE A DUMMY AND WAS RAPED,’ SAID MR SELLS.

THE YOUNG VICTIM BROKE DOWN IN COURT AFTER TELLING THE COURT

THAT THE DEFENDANT, WHO HAD LIVED WITH HER AND HER MOTHER SINCE SHE

WAS SIX, WAS THE MAN SHE CALLED ‘DAD’.

SHE SAID THAT HER STEPFATHER KNEW SHE HAD NO CLASSES ON

FRIDAY AFTERNOON BECAUSE SHE LEFT HER TIMETABLE IN THE KITCHEN ON THE

SIDEBOARD.

THE COURT HEARD THAT THE DEFENDANT RAPED AND INDECENTLY

ASSAULTED HER ON MANY OCCASIONS UNTIL ON FEBRUARY 6 LAST YEAR SHE

TOLD A SOCIAL WORKER OF HER ORDEAL.

THE POLICE WERE THEN INFORMED OF

THE OFFENCES.

THE MAN DENIES FOUR COUNTS 0F RAPE AND FOUR ALTERNATIVE

CHARGES OF INDECENT ASSAULT BETWEEN SEPTEMBER 1986 AND FEBRUARY 1987.

THE TRIAL CONTINUES.

ENDS.