TV star Phillip Schofield mentioned “f***, stop” to his brother when instructed a couple of intercourse act he carried out with a teenage boy, a courtroom has heard.
In a written assertion, the This Morning presenter, 60, mentioned his sibling “made it sound like a one-off” and the superstar instructed him “it must never happen again”.
The two spoke head to head on 12 September 2021 after Timothy Schofield had pushed to his well-known brother’s London house from Bath after being in an “extreme state of agitation” and “was on the verge of killing himself”, jurors heard.
The 54-year-old defendant is accused of 11 sexual offences involving a toddler between October 2016 and October 2019, that are alleged to have began when the alleged sufferer was an adolescent. The most severe cost concerned a intercourse act with the kid.
Timothy Schofield, a civilian police employee, “does not dispute” that he and the complainant watched pornography collectively, however disputes “when it started”, in accordance with Schofield’s lawyer Peter Binder.
In his assertion to Exeter Crown Court, Phillip Schofield mentioned he was washing up when his brother stood behind him and mentioned, “you are going to hate me for what I am about to say”.
“I said there was nothing he could say that would make me hate him. Then he said that he and [the boy] had time together and that last year they had watched porn… and [masturbated]”.
“I turned and said, ‘What did you just say?’ He said it was last year and we were alone together.
“Tim mentioned it was simply this as soon as. I instructed him it ought to by no means occur once more.
“He then started to tell me about [the boy’s] body.
“I mentioned, ‘F***, cease’. I shouted at Tim that he needed to cease. I did not need to know any of the main points however he made it sound like a one-off.
“I said, ‘I don’t want you to tell me anymore’. I said, ‘You’ve got to stop, just never do it again. Regardless how that happened it must never happen again’.
“Tim would say it was simply ‘[boy] time’.
“I said, ‘What the hell is [boy] time?'”
‘Timothy Schofield’s head was in a large number’
In the assertion, the TV host mentioned that previous to his sibling driving over to his house, the defendant had known as the star in an agitated state.
Mr Schofield mentioned: “Tim was in an extreme state of agitation, and he said that he was on the verge of killing himself. He said his head was in a mess.”
When he arrived at Mr Schofield’s home a few hours later, the defendant was “as angry as I have ever seen him”, the courtroom heard.
During the face-to-face dialog, Mr Schofield mentioned he urged his brother to see his GP and get counselling.
The unnamed complainant yesterday instructed the trial he was round 13 when Schofield’s alleged offending began.
But the accused’s lawyer Peter Binder mentioned: “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 mentioned the lawyer’s declare was “wrong”.
Schofield denies three counts of inflicting a toddler to observe sexual exercise, three of partaking 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 defendant was working for Avon and Somerset Police as an IT technician when the alleged assaults came about.
The trial continues.
Source: information.sky.com”