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Neil Fox sexual abuse trial begins
By Andy Malt | Published on Friday 6 November 2015
The trial of Neil Fox began yesterday, with the former radio presenter accused of exploiting his fame to sexually abuse women and girls as young as fourteen over a number of years.
As previously reported, Fox was arrested in September last year accused of sexual offences against two women. Further charges were added as more alleged victims came forward and, as the trial began yesterday, he faced fifteen charges in total in relation to alleged assaults against nine women between 1988 and 2014.
Shortly before the trial officially began, Fox was actually cleared of five of those charges. However, he still faces accusations of eight counts of indecent assault and two of sexual assault.
One of his accusers, who says she was aged fourteen at the time of her alleged attack, claims that Fox forced his tongue into her mouth when she met him at a motor show in 1991. There is a similar allegation that he kissed a fifteen year old girl at a theme park in 1996.
Another alleged victim was aged fifteen when, she says, Fox molested her in an underground carpark at Capital FM in 1988. Prosecutor John Price told the court that subsequently “she would regularly go to his flat [and] intimacy would occur between them”, telling the court that this allegation is “conspicuous for its seriousness”.
The court also heard that the accuser who triggered the initial police investigation was a colleague at Magic FM, whom Fox allegedly groped.
Two other former colleagues have also come forward, one alleging that he kissed her shoulder telling her “you taste so good”, another saying that he told her that he’d had a dream about her the previous night, saying: “I was fucking you up against that wall. I could do it right now. I could fuck you up against that wall right now”.
Price told the court that the timespan of the accusations “demonstrated a long-standing propensity on behalf of Mr Fox to impose himself sexually on young adult women”.
Fox denies all the charges against him. The trial continues.
