A taxi driver has denied groping a vulnerable teenaged girl as he took her to and from a special needs school.
Kevin Satterley says his elbow may have brushed the 18-year-old's arm as he drove but there had been no deliberate contact.
He denied flirting with the girl or showing her adult DVDs on a portable player as he took her from supported accommodation to the special needs school.
Satterley, aged 48, was employed by Devon County Council to make the 45 minute each way trip on most weekdays for seven weeks.
The woman has alleged he started touching her on the breasts and between the legs after she turned 18 and did so every day for around two weeks before she complained to carers.
The prosecution have told a jury at Exeter Crown Court her story is supported by the discovery of a DVD player with an adult disc under the passenger seat and concerns raised by a school receptionist who saw Satterley slap the girl's bottom as he was ushering her into his taxi.
Satterley, aged 48, of Redburn Road, Paignton, denies four offences of sexual assault by touching in June and July last year.
Satterley said the girl initially say in the back seat and he had asked her to remain there but she had insisted in sitting in the front with him, moving into the middle seat next to him when he drove a van-type VW.
He said he only physical contact between them came when his elbow brushed her arm as he was driving. He said she was often fidgety and messed about in the car, moving from the middle to the window seat as he was driving.
He said:"I said to her point blank I would rather she sat in the back but she refused to do so. I treated her like any other customer.
"I have never touched her deliberately. Unless you have one of these vehicles you don't realise how tight they are. If she was next to me my elbow was going to be pushing her or rubbing her arm.
"I did not sexually assault her. No. It is not the truth. I was not over friendly with her and I did not show her any pornographic films."
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