A Spalding pensioner has gone on trial at Lincoln Crown Court accused of sex offences against three alleged victims.
Keith Amess, 77, has pleaded not guilty to eight sexual charges against the three complainants, who can not be named to protect their anonymity.
Amess faces one count of sexually assaulting a boy under 13, two charges of sexual activity with a teenage boy, two charges of inciting sexual activity with a teenage boy, plus three counts of sexual assault on a female
The incidents are alleged to have taken place between June 30, 2023 and September 4, 2024.
Jurors were played a video interview which was recorded with the youngest male complainant when he was questioned by specially trained police officers.
During the recording which was taken in November 2024 the boy described how he was touched by Amess over his trousers.
“His hand was flat,” the boy told the interviewing police officer.
“I walked off because he shouldn’t have done it.”
When asked if he said anything to Amess in response, the boy replied: “No.”
The boy added that Amess told him: “Don’t tell anyone.”
The officer also asked the boy, “how did you feel?”
He replied: “That he (Amess) should not have done it.”
Giving evidence in court from behind a screen, the boy admitted he did not report the incident straight away.
“I was just scared to speak about it,” he explained.
The boy denied a suggestion from defence barrister Johnathan Dunne that Amess may have touched him by accident.
“I said it because it was true,” the boy said.
Amess, of Hampton Close, Spalding, denies all the charges.
The trial continues.
