The brother of TV presenter Phillip Schofield pressured a teenage boy to observe pornography and sexually abused him, a courtroom has heard.
Timothy Schofield is accused of finishing up 11 sexual offences between October 2016 and October 2019 – essentially the most critical cost involving a intercourse act with the kid.
The 54-year-old civilian police employee denies three counts of inflicting a toddler to observe sexual exercise, three of participating in sexual exercise within the presence of a kid, three of inflicting a toddler to have interaction in sexual exercise and two of sexual exercise with a toddler.
The accuser instructed Exeter Crown Court that he felt “emotionally blackmailed” by Schofield into collaborating in intercourse acts.
The complainant stated “emotionally there was no escape from what we had to do” and there was a “tremendous amount of pressure and expectation for me to fulfil what was being asked and wanted”.
“I felt that that was why I was feeling forced to participate.”
Schofield “does not dispute” that he and the complainant watched pornography collectively and that they might “masturbate” after they did so, however disputes “when it started”, based on Schofield’s lawyer Peter Binder.
The complainant instructed the courtroom he was round 13 when Schofield’s alleged offending began.
But Mr Binder stated: “It is his [Schofield’s] case that you have exaggerated the length of time that this practice went on for, that it only lasted 18 months or so from when you were 16 to roughly 17 and a half and that is right, is it not?”
The complainant replied that the lawyer’s declare was “completely incorrect and false”.
The courtroom beforehand heard Schofield, from Bath, carried out the alleged assaults whereas working for Avon and Somerset Police as an IT technician.
His brother Phillip Schofield, 60, didn’t seem on Tuesday on his ITV present This Morning. The studio stated he takes “pre-planned leave” this week.
Timothy Schofield’s trial continues.
Source: information.sky.com”