Trial jury told: 'I kept quiet as I was scared'

ALLEGED VICTIM APPEARS AT TRIAL OF EX-CITY SOLICITOR

- By CARL EVE

A MAN who alleged a Plymouth criminal defence solicitor sexually assaulted him has told a jury that he felt he had no choice but to go along with the assaults, as he feared being sent into custody.

Alan Harris, 71, from Thorn Park in Plymouth, is on trial at Winchester Crown Court in Hampshire facing 30 different charges - he is accused of 18 charges of indecent assault, eight charges of sexual assault, three charges of rape and one of another serious sexual offence, dating between 1989 and 2015. He denies all the charges.

Speaking from the witness box, an alleged victim known only as Male E, now in his 40s, accepted that he had been in and out of trouble with the law from the age of around 17.