Part-time disc jockey Richard Baker was today due back in court after he pleaded guilty to indecently assaulting four women including a 35-year-old in Westcliff.

Appearing in the dock at the start of his Old Bailey trial, Baker, 34, admitted indecently assaulting four women in south Essex and London.

One of the assaults is said to have happened in the front garden of a vacant house in Beedell Avenue, Westcliff, on September 12 last year.

Baker, originally of Bodmin, Cornwall, but now of no fixed address, is also accused of the rape of a 15-year-old schoolgirl in Eaton Road, Leigh, on August 31 last year and attempted indecent assault and affray on a 16-year-old girl in Queensway, Southend, on September 12 last year which he denies.

Baker has also pleaded not guilty to another two charges of indecent assault, three rapes, and one of assault causing actual bodily harm.

The trial continues.

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