UPDATE: Ex-Unison secretary and disabilities champion convicted of abusing teenager

JURORS in a trial of alleged historical sex abuse by a disabled man in Oxfordshire have retired to consider their verdicts.

Prosecutors at Oxford Crown Court claim that Mark Fysh, who has cerebral palsy, sexually touched his victim over her clothing and forced her to rub his genitals on multiple occasions.

The instances of alleged abuse are claimed to have taken place between November 1985 and November 1987.

Fysh, 60, of Whitecross, Wootton, near Abingdon, denies seven counts alleging indecent assault as well as two counts alleging indecency with a child.

As his trial reached its closing stages yesterday jurors heard closing arguments from prosecutors and defence teams who have presided over the case since it began last week.

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Shortly before 1pm the panel was sent away to begin their deliberations in order to reach verdicts in the case.

Earlier in the trial jurors heard a police interview made with the alleged victim - who cannot be named for legal reasons - in which she described to officers her ordeal.

Speaking of one instance of alleged abuse she said: “I remember sitting on the sofa and he would come and sit by me.

“I had a reaction like any teenager. I used to get really red and embarrassed. It was my personal space.

“I did not really like it but he managed to get under my defences and eventually it was ok."

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She claimed this led to an incident in a bathroom before further abuse was carried out by Fysh, including touching her on several occasions as well as kissing and touching while on the landing of his home while others were downstairs.

Taking to the witness box to deny any wrong-doing Fysh claimed that his physical ailments would have made any 'spontaneous' sexual acts impossible.

The former local government officer told jurors that his cerebral palsy meant he was constant pain.

The trial continues.