Rotherham child sex trial: Judge summing up

Adam Lockwood (30), formerly of Rotherham but now of Mill Lane in Dewsbury, is charged with 14 sexual offences against two girls.

These include nine counts of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, two of rape, one of sexual assault, one of assault by penetration and one of engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child.

Some of the abuse is said to have happened at Ulley Country Park.

Lockwood denies all of the crimes, said to have happened between 2012 and 2014, when the complainants were aged 13 to 15.

Under cross-examination, Lockwood denied abusing the girls and denied he took advantage of them because they were vulnerable.

He denied threatening to kill himself and or trying to manipulate the victims.

Lockwood denied offering the girls cash to make them perform sexual acts on him.

The defendant’s father, Christopher Lockwood, told the court he saw his son with one of the alleged victims on a regular basis and she seemed to be acting normally when they were together.

He said she never seemed to be upset.

Mr Lockwood described both of the alleged victims as “normal kids” and he saw nothing that gave him cause for concern.

Lockwood’s brother, Wayne Lockwood, said he had seen his brother with one of the alleged victims a and she had seemed to act normally.

“There was nothing that ever gave me cause for concern about how [the victim] was behaving,” said Wayne.

Summing up, Recorder Simon Eckersley said: "The defendant’s case is that none of the sexual activity took place and all of the charges made against him are lies and fabrications."