A 48-year-old witness cried as he explained how he was forced to do exercises while ex-North Wales police superintendent watched
A man has told the trial of ex-police chief Gordon Anglesea how as a child he had to do naked sit-ups and squats in front of him.
The 48-year-old man’s recorded interview with the National Crime Agency showed him crying as he recounted his ordeal. It was played to Mold crown court as part of the ongoing sex abuse trial of the 78-year-old former North Wales Police chief inspector.
He recalled one occasion when boys at the Wrexham attendance centre which Anglesea ran were forced to lie on their backs and do naked sit ups or press-ups as a punishment.
One day in the shower “he had us on the floor doing press ups”.
He was pretty sure another officer was there as well.
The witness, who is not a complainant in the case, said he had his legs in the air, and had to open and close his legs, and had never been so embarrassed.
He cried as he alleged that Anglesea watched him doing it. He would say “right on your backs” and would watch him.
The defendant had never sexually abused him or touched him but he was always there in the showers, the witness claimed.
The man said that as a child he “was f...... petrified of him”.
Anglesea inspected them in the morning and then he would always be in the showers, he claimed.
He told Childline about what had gone on in 2012 and when he saw that Anglesea had been arrested, that prompted him to come forward again.
The witness said that he felt scared, intimidated and embarrassed.
In court, he said that Anglesea and another officer used to “tell us not to wear underpants underneath our PE shorts” and repeated his allegation that he was always in the shower area.
Cross-examined by Tania Griffiths QC, in court from behind a screen, he agreed he first came forward to speak to Childline after the Jimmy Saville scandal broke.
In his interview, he said that looking back, he started to realise that Gordon Anglesea was always there in the shower, and she asked if that was when the Saville issue broke?
He said he was being interviewed for a pre-sentence report in 2008 to try and keep him out of jail and he said that jail could not be any worse than what happened in the attendance centre.
But he did not make a complaint about the defendant then because he thought he was dead. “Who was going to believe me?” he asked.
He denied that his claim of being told not to wear underpants was a copy cat allegation that had been made against another convicted sex offender and said he did not know about the other allegations.
Miss Griffiths suggested that he had spoken to others or had read material on the other allegations but he said that he was giving evidence from his own experience. She said that it had not happened and that Anglesea was never regularly in the shower or changing rooms.
It was his role to wander about to ensure that everything was in order and that he had never stopped to watch him in the shower, she said.
The witness said that he had a vision of the defendant standing there in his uniform.
Retired police superintendent Anglesea, of Gwynant, Old Colwyn , pleads not guilty to four charges of sexual assault against two complainants when he was a police inspector running an attendance centre at Wrexham in the early to mid 1980s.
The trial before Judge Geraint Walters is proceeding.
see-http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/gordon-anglesea-trial-hears-boys-11949590
A man has told the trial of ex-police chief Gordon Anglesea how as a child he had to do naked sit-ups and squats in front of him.
The 48-year-old man’s recorded interview with the National Crime Agency showed him crying as he recounted his ordeal. It was played to Mold crown court as part of the ongoing sex abuse trial of the 78-year-old former North Wales Police chief inspector.
He recalled one occasion when boys at the Wrexham attendance centre which Anglesea ran were forced to lie on their backs and do naked sit ups or press-ups as a punishment.
One day in the shower “he had us on the floor doing press ups”.
He was pretty sure another officer was there as well.
The witness, who is not a complainant in the case, said he had his legs in the air, and had to open and close his legs, and had never been so embarrassed.
He cried as he alleged that Anglesea watched him doing it. He would say “right on your backs” and would watch him.
The defendant had never sexually abused him or touched him but he was always there in the showers, the witness claimed.
The man said that as a child he “was f...... petrified of him”.
Anglesea inspected them in the morning and then he would always be in the showers, he claimed.
He told Childline about what had gone on in 2012 and when he saw that Anglesea had been arrested, that prompted him to come forward again.
The witness said that he felt scared, intimidated and embarrassed.
In court, he said that Anglesea and another officer used to “tell us not to wear underpants underneath our PE shorts” and repeated his allegation that he was always in the shower area.
Cross-examined by Tania Griffiths QC, in court from behind a screen, he agreed he first came forward to speak to Childline after the Jimmy Saville scandal broke.
In his interview, he said that looking back, he started to realise that Gordon Anglesea was always there in the shower, and she asked if that was when the Saville issue broke?
He said he was being interviewed for a pre-sentence report in 2008 to try and keep him out of jail and he said that jail could not be any worse than what happened in the attendance centre.
But he did not make a complaint about the defendant then because he thought he was dead. “Who was going to believe me?” he asked.
He denied that his claim of being told not to wear underpants was a copy cat allegation that had been made against another convicted sex offender and said he did not know about the other allegations.
Miss Griffiths suggested that he had spoken to others or had read material on the other allegations but he said that he was giving evidence from his own experience. She said that it had not happened and that Anglesea was never regularly in the shower or changing rooms.
It was his role to wander about to ensure that everything was in order and that he had never stopped to watch him in the shower, she said.
The witness said that he had a vision of the defendant standing there in his uniform.
Retired police superintendent Anglesea, of Gwynant, Old Colwyn , pleads not guilty to four charges of sexual assault against two complainants when he was a police inspector running an attendance centre at Wrexham in the early to mid 1980s.
The trial before Judge Geraint Walters is proceeding.
see-http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/gordon-anglesea-trial-hears-boys-11949590
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