Eight girls have accused a pensioner of indecently assaulting them at his Colchester home.
John Drury - court heard he was alleged to have told pornographic fairy tales to one girl. (45010-1)
A court was told 80-year-old John Drury allowed the children free run of his six-bedroom house and they were allowed to do what they wanted.
But a Chelmsford Crown Court jury heard the prosecution claim that Drury was responsible for a series of indecent assaults on the children during their visits.
He is also alleged to have told pornographic fairy tales to one girl and carried out two indecent assaults when he took one child swimming at the Leisure World pool in the town.
Drury, of Cambridge Road, Colchester, denies 12 charges of indecent assault and two of indecency with a child.
The offences are alleged to have taken place between January 1991 and December 1998.
The trial continues.
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Published Wednesday, September 14, 2005
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