A JURY is due to retire in an historic child sex assault trial being heard at Oxford Crown Court.

Nick Tarres, 51, has been charged with two counts of indecent assault on a boy under the age of 14 and 16 and one count of attempted buggery with a boy under the age of 16.

The alleged assaults were said to have taken place when Tarres himself was in his late teens and living in Thame.

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Tarres, of Botany Gardens, Crowmarsh Gifford, has denied all charges.

Earlier in the trial, a police interview was one of the alleged victims was playing out to court.

He said: “I don’t know how it started really. I don’t know how the interaction began.

“On two occasions I can think of he tried to put his penis inside me but didn’t. He tried to. I know the last time it happened it was in his house.

“He took me upstairs and we were on his bed – I was about eight or nine.”

On another occasion, the man alleged Tarres had taken him into an alleyway while they were playing a game with other children in the neighbourhood.

He said: “I was told to get on my knees but I wasn’t forced to. I can’t remember the exact words he used.

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“I felt scared. I’ve blocked so much of it out of my head.”

It was alleged Tarres told the boy not to cry out or tell anyone or he would ‘murder’ his family.

The court heard the alleged victim then told his mother what happened after she became worried he wasn’t sleeping properly.

He said he was ‘plagued by nightmares’ and the ‘person responsible was a monster’.

He said his parents were worried and in the end ‘his resolve broke’ and he explained what happened to his mum.

When asked if his mum could have supplied him with the name of the defendant when he admitted what happened, the boy said: “I know the name as his penis was in my mouth.”

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The jury heard when he told his mum what allegedly happened, he was in ‘floods of tears’ because he was ‘fearing murder’.

It was heard Tarres admitted to sometimes playing football with the other children in the neighbourhood but he ‘didn’t associate regularly or very much at all with them’.

Judge Maria Lamb was summing up the evidence for the jury on Monday (February 19).

It is expected the jury will be retiring and soon delivering their verdicts.