A MAN who said he was sexually abused by a Scout leader in the 1960s has denied fabricating the claims to blame someone for his own difficult life.

Roger Franklin, 66, of Ashdene Road, Bicester, denies four counts of indecent assault between March 1968 and March 1970. He helped run a west Oxfordshire Scout group at the time.

Jonathan Coode, cross-examining the alleged victim on behalf of the defendant, said his client last saw the man when he was about 13 and the pair “parted on amicable terms”.

The complainant, who is now in his 50s and cannot be identified, denied this and said: “I was an 11-year-old child who was groomed and abused, and for you to even think that after all I’ve suffered — and when I say I’ve suffered, I attempted to throw myself out of the bedroom window on a daily basis because I was so unhappy — I would go to this person’s house to end a relationship is preposterous.”

Mr Coode replied: “I’m not suggesting you had an affair with him, I’m suggesting that what you said he did to you didn’t happen at all.”

“Not true,” replied the man.

Jurors heard the complainant was run over as a 12-year-old, after he says the abuse took place, and was in a coma for three months.

He denied that this incident, and his subsequent depression and therapy, had led him to seek someone to blame for his difficulties.

The trial continues.