[A] TEACHER has told jurors he never put his hands down the top of a girl as she has alleged.
However, 26-year-old David Harrison has conceded he did browse “real life” internet child sex abuse stories on his laptop.
Harrison gave evidence from the witness box at Carlisle Crown Court today (THURS). He is on trial having denied four charges which allege he sexually assaulted a girl aged under 13 by putting his hands down her top and rubbing her chest.
His barrister, Alison Whalley, asked: “Have you ever touched her inappropriately?” Harrison replied: “No.”
“As alleged or at all?” Miss Whalley continued.
“No,” he insisted.
Police analysis of Harrison’s internet history, the court has heard, revealed visits to four web pages “which each contained an explicit story involving sexual behaviour between an adult and a child”.
He told jurors he accessed the material “accidentally” and merely out of “concern”.
The court heard Harrison, of Friars Garth, Abbeytown, is a man of good character.
The trial continues.
