The brother of ITV presenter Phillip Schofield allegedly sexually abused a teenage boy, a court has heard.
Timothy Schofield, 54, denies 11 charges of interfering with a child. Today, jurors at Exeter Crown Court heard how the teenager told police he was made to watch porn while being sexually molested.
A video of the boy's police interview was shown to the court. In the interview, the boy said he felt powerless to escape the situations with his alleged abuser.
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According to DevonLive, he told police: "It very much felt there wasn't a way out. When I said 'no' he was never too happy." The alleged offences are understood to have taken place while Timothy Schofield worked for Avon and Somerset Police as a civilian police worker.
It is claimed the abuse started when the alleged victim was a teenager. One of the charges involves a sex act with the alleged victim.
Others include forcing a child to watch pornography. The alleged victim, a schoolboy at the time of the charges, recalled to police how Timothy Schofield would try to normalise his behaviour by saying he had engaged in similar sexual behaviour when he was the boy's age.
He said: "It was so overwhelming. It felt really wrong and something that didn't feel right." He said the defendant used a projector to play adult pornography on the wall while he abused him. He said: "It was never something I enjoyed, never something that was good."
The teenager added that he feared the "very, very unpredictable" defendant might turn violent if he did not do as he was told. The allegations came to light when the teenager confided in a counsellor. Three weeks later the defendant was arrested.
Timothy Schofield, from Bath, is accused of a campaign of sexual abuse and having an obsession with the boy. He allegedly sexually abused the teenager over the course of three years. He denies the charges.
On Monday, the court was told about how "shocked" his brother Phillip Schofield was when he allegedly confessed to a sex act on a teenager. The court heard how Timothy Schofield went to his famous sibling's house in September 2021 and said he had "time" with the teenager, during which they watched porn and performed sex acts together.
The court heard Phillip Schofield replied: "What the hell is time? That should never happen again." Prosecutor Mr Robin Shellard said as he opened the case: "The defendant is seven years younger than Phillip and they had not been particularly close growing up, however in December 2019 the defendant told his brother he was gay.
According to Phillip the defendant travelled up that day [September 2021] and he was extremely agitated. His brother described him as very angry and distressed. The defendant also told his brother that he was impotent.
Timothy Schofield was arrested on December 3, 2021.
Mrs Justice Johanna Cutts is presiding over the trial. She told the jury on the first day of the trial to ignore the fact that the defendant's brother is a famous TV personality.
The trial continues.
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