A man accused of pushing a 10-year-old off a cliff edge claims he was only there to show him where a movie was filmed, a court heard.
Anthony Stocks, 54, is accused of attempting to murder the boy because he wanted him out of the way so he could be with his sister, who was under the age of 13 at the time.
Giving evidence yesterday (Wednesday, May 29), he told jurors he wanted to take the boy to the cliff edge at Ovingdean, East Sussex, to “see where they filmed Quadrophenia”. The 1979 film ends with protagonist Jimmy Cooper crashing his scooter over a cliff-top on the Brighton seafront.
Stocks told Oxfordshire Crown Court the underage girl he allegedly raped had touched his penis when he didn’t want her to. Visibly shaking and fidgeting on the witness stand, he said: “I got fed up with it, with her touching me.”
He said the girl, who was under the age of 13 at the time, touched him on several occasions “with her hands and mouth” and that he would push her away and call her a “stupid little b*tch,” the jury heard.
