A MAN who claims he was molested as a boy during a Lake District camping holiday asked his alleged abuser to “stop”, a jury has heard.
Richard William Philpotts, 63, is on trial at Carlisle Crown Court.
A former RAF corporal and scout leader, Philpotts denies two alleged indecent assaults on the boy, and also a further two charges which allege a further sexual offence and an attempted sex crime.
These arise out of alleged incidents which are said to have occurred in the Windermere area during the early 1990s, involving a boy then aged in his early teens.
Two interviews the alleged victim gave police as an adult were read to the jury. He alleged Philpotts sexually abused him in a tent giving “groomed” him while he was a boy scout.
“I’ve pulled away and said ‘No I don’t like it’. And then he’s tried again, and I told him ‘look, I don’t like it. Stop’,” the complainant told an RAF officer, who asked: “Did you say anything?”
The man replied: “No. Apart from ‘I don’t like it’, no. And he’s tried again. I just said ‘I don’t like it’ again. ‘Stop’.”
The court has heard Philpotts, of Gainsborough Road, Stowmarket, Suffolk, denies being responsible for any criminal conduct with the male. The trial continues.
