JURORS in a trial alleging historical child sexual abuse have been told 'it's only one person's word against the other.'

From the witness box John Bellamy denied any wrong-doing after claiming none of the sexual abuse ever took place.

The 53-year-old's trial reached its closing stages at Oxford Crown Court yesterday and jurors heard final arguments from both the prosecution and the defence.

READ MORE: A report from the opening of the case earlier this week.

After the case was summed up by presiding Judge Ian Pringle QC the jury was sent out to begin their deliberations in an effort to reach their verdicts.

Bellamy, of Greenwood Way, Harwell, denies five counts alleging indecent assault of a child.

Prosecutors claim that he sexually abused the child - who is now a woman and cannot be named for legal reasons - in the 1980s in South Oxfordshire.

This alleged abuse, the jury was told, took the form of multiple sexual assaults upon the child victim.

Among the alleged sex attacks, it is claimed, Bellamy groped her under her clothing and also made her touch him sexually.

In his closing address to the jury prosecutor Matthew Walsh said there were no other witnesses, no CCTV and no DNA evidence.

He said: "There are only two people who know what happened. There are only two witnesses to the events.

"It is only one person's word against the other."

Bellamy's defence barrister Lyall Thompson, said there was 'absolutely no supporting evidence' of what the alleged victim claimed.

He went on to say that there were 'no suspicions from anybody' raised at the time of the alleged abuse during the 1980s.

He added that his client had 'waited a long time to answer these allegations' and said when he went to the witness box to defend himself he was clear and 'truthful.'

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Earlier in the trial - which began on Monday - the jury heard from the alleged victim via a recorded interview she gave with police.

The woman described her alleged ordeal as something which had no pattern.

She said: "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 jury was sent out to begin their deliberations late yesterday afternoon.

Bellamy denies all the charges against him and the trial continues.