Abuse trial continues

Saturday 10th April 2010, 2:59PM BST.

The Assize trial is being heard in the Royal Court

A WOMAN broke down in the Royal Court yesterday as she described how years of sexual abuse as a child had affected her life ‘massively’.

She became so distressed when giving evidence in the Assize trial of Leonard Miles Vandenborn (62) that proceedings were momentarily halted because she felt ‘too sick’ to carry on.

Visibly shaking and holding her stomach, she told the jury in vivid detail that accountant Mr Vandenborn, of Route de St Jean, St Lawrence, began indecently assaulting her when she was nine, and that the abuse continued frequently until she was 15.

She is the second woman to give evidence against Mr Vandenborn, who denies 14 counts of indecent assault and one of rape. The two women, now in their 30s and 40s, allege that the offences took place over a 12-year period beginning in the 1970s.

The trial continues on Monday.

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