A MAN who is claimed to have sexually abused a child on multiple occasions during the 1980s has gone on trial.

In a video recorded interview given to police the alleged victim said her abuser John Bellamy would 'laugh' at her when she begged him to stop.

A court heard that she was told by him nobody would believe her if she spoke out.

The 53-year-old of Greenwood Way, Harwell, denies five counts alleging indecent assault of a child.

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His trial at Oxford Crown Court got under way today.

Outlining the case to the jury prosecutor Matthew Walsh said Bellamy sexually abused the child - who is now a woman and cannot be named for legal reasons - in the 1980s in South Oxfordshire.

He said the abuse took the form of multiple sexual assaults upon the alleged victim.

Among the claimed sex attacks, the jury was told, Bellamy groped her under her clothing and also made her touch him sexually.

Mr Walsh told jurors there was 'no pattern' as to the abuse which he said took place over the course of a number of years.

Jurors also saw a video recorded interview the alleged victim gave with police after she had reported the incidents.

Recalling one episode of alleged abuse she said: "I was crying and telling him to stop, and he would not.

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"It didn't matter how much I was trying to push him off and kicking him off.

"I could not get him off me because he's strong, I was crying and telling him to stop."

She said after it was over she felt sore and in pain.

The woman went on: "I would never know when it was coming because there was no pattern.

"I would say please leave me alone, go away, but he [was] much stronger than me and he always laughed at me and said nobody is going to believe you."

Asked how often the alleged abuse took place she said: "Sometimes it would be a couple of times in a week and other times there was nothing.

"Sometimes I felt he had stopped and then it would start again."

The jury went on to hear that after the allegations were reported Bellamy was interviewed by the police where he denied anything taking place.

The trial - which is expected to last a week - continues.