Extradited Pensioner Accused Of Child Sex Abuse Over 60 Years Ago

A Long Way From Wanneroo - Reg Davies Outside Kingston-upon-Thames Crown Court

A Welshman – extradited back from Australia to answer child sexual abuse allegations – continues to deny the charges, which stretch back to the 1949.

Ex-serviceman and miner Reginald Davies, 78, now staying in Esbies Estate, Sawbridgeworth, was responsible for an “entrenched pattern of sustained sexual abuse,” the jury were told today.

He denies a total of sixteen offences – including rape – against four girls in Abertridwr, Caerphilly.

Davies, whose wife will give evidence on his behalf during the Kingston-upon-Thames Crown Court trial, was extradited from Perth, where he had emigrated over twenty years ago.

The court heard he would lavish the girls with attention and "test the water" by asking them for a kiss, would touch their legs and then forced them into sexual acts.

Hanna Llewellyn-Waters, prosecuting, said: "The defendant nurtured a fear of disclosing the abuse in the complainants when they were children.

"He made them feel that they would not be believed, that they were to blame and, on occasion, he threatened that they would be removed from their parents if they were to report his abuse of them.

"As the complainants grew up, they tried to block the abuse from their minds in order to try to be able to continue with their lives."

Mr Davies faces four charges of child rape, three charges of attempted rape, eight counts of indecent assault, and one count of indecency with a child.

He was arrested last July at his adopted home of Wanneroo on Australia's west coast.

Trial continues.