‘I thought she was 16 because there were no pictures of her in school uniform’

A shopkeeper accused of raping a 15-year-old girl claimed he thought she was a year older because there were no pictures of her wearing a school uniform on Facebook, a court heard today (WED). Daniel Bryant, 30, admits being in a sexual relationship with the child when he allegedly raped her in Surrey in August 2015. Bryant, who was 28 at the time, insists he thought she was 16 at the time because she had ‘constantly’ come into his convenience…