Quantcast
Channel: Exeter Express and Echo Latest Stories Feed
Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 7823

Dawlish youth denies having sex with girl of 15 in woodland hideout

$
0
0
A youth allegedly had sex with a 15-year-old girl after meeting her in a makeshift den in woods in Dawlish. Lewis Stewart, aged 19, was banned from meeting the girl but paid for a taxi to take her to the rough ground behind the fire station in the seaside town. He had been stopped by police from having any further contact with the schoolgirl after her family found she was having under age sex and called in the police. The pair continued exchanging secret text messages over a website and the girl agreed to meet him on Fathers Day last year, Exeter Crown Court was told. Stewart, of Third Avenue, Dawlish, denies sexual activity with a child and breaching a restraining order. The jury at Exeter Crown Court have been told he has already admitted six other offences of sexual activity with a child which relate to the same girl. Miss Anna Midgley, prosecuting, said the girl's family had called in the police after finding out the relationship and as a result Stewart was served with a restraining order forbidding any further contact. She said:"The girl had disclosed a sexual relationship and so he was arrested, charged and released on bail. This case concerns what happened after that. "The police were contacted by her mother again and the girl said Stewart had contacted her on her phone by messages and by Kick messaging. She also disclosed they had met on June 15, which was Fathers Day last year. "He asked her to meet up and paid for a cab for her to meet him in Dawlish and she agreed and went to a hideout in the woods where they had sex. "She told police the taxi took her to the edge of woodland behind the fire station in Dawlish and in the woods there was a den with wooden planks on the floor. "It was covered with cardboard and twigs and sticks so it was not visible to people walking past. She said the defendant told her he was lonely and they ended up having sex. "She agreed to sex and it went on for about ten minutes before it began to hurt her. She asked him to stop and he did." Miss Midgley said the girl remained at the den from 10.30 am to 4.30 pm and her mother recalls she was late for a family Fathers Day party and she was trying to find out where she was. She said Stewart agreed he had sex with the girl on earlier occasions but denied meeting her on Fathers Day or breaching the restraining order by doing so. He said she had contacted him two days later by text and he had responded but had spent Fathers Day at home in his garden or in Dawlish.

Dawlish youth denies having sex with girl of 15 in woodland hideout


Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 7823

Latest Images

Trending Articles



Latest Images

<script src="https://jsc.adskeeper.com/r/s/rssing.com.1596347.js" async> </script>