A MAN who was on trial for alleged historical child sex abuse has been cleared of all charges.

John Bellamy had always denied the five counts each alleging the indecent assault of a child.

Prosecutors had claimed that he sexually abused one child - who is now a woman and cannot be named for legal reasons - in the 1980s in South Oxfordshire.

This alleged abuse, the jury was told, took the form of multiple sexual assaults upon the child victim.

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Among the alleged sex attacks, it was claimed, Mr Bellamy groped her under her clothing and also made her touch him sexually.

At the end of his trial at Oxford Crown Court today jurors found the 53-year-old of Greenwood Way, Harwell, not guilty of all five offences.

The jury took a total of five hours and 26 minutes to reach their verdicts after they were first sent out to begin their deliberations on Wednesday.

Earlier in the trial in his closing address to the jury prosecutor Matthew Walsh said there were no other witnesses, no CCTV and no DNA evidence.

He said: "There are only two people who know what happened. There are only two witnesses to the events.

"It is only one person's word against the other."

Mr Bellamy's defence barrister Lyall Thompson, said there was 'absolutely no supporting evidence' of what the alleged victim had claimed.

He went on to tell jurors that there were 'no suspicions from anybody' raised at the time of the alleged abuse during the 1980s.