A 45-year-old man denies rapes and sexual assaults against three children, some of the abuse said to have started when one of the alleged victims was six years old.

David Wheatcroft of St Michael's Close, Stourport, denies the allegations, some of which are said to have taken place near Worcester and in Evesham, at his ongoing trial at Worcester Crown Court.

Today (Monday) Judge Nicolas Cartwright summed up the case to the jury before they retired to consider verdicts. It is alleged that Wheatcroft indecently assaulted one girl when she was aged eight in the late 1990s and raped and sexually assaulted another on more than one occasion between August 2011 and August 2016.

The third complainant alleges that he sexually touched her bottom at an address in Leigh, near Worcester between December 2015 and December 2016.

Judge Cartwright summed up the evidence of the rape complainant who described herself sitting on the defendant's lap. "He would touch her in places she didn't want him to" said the judge, summarising the prosecution case. The alleged abuse involving the girl was said to have happened in Evesham.

She described him playing her a video of people having sex before he told her: "Its what I'm going to do to you."

"Then he started raping me. After that he did that quite a lot" she said.

She said he told her that she would get into trouble if she told anyone what had happened. When she said 'I want you to get into trouble' he was said to have replied: "You will get into trouble as well."

The complainant, who made the allegation in July 2017, said she had tried to 'punch him, smacking him away'.

"I couldn't move because he has pinned me down with his hands. He was quite heavy. I tried to scream for help. He covered my mouth and got up and shut the door" she said.

The complainant added: "I was screaming and screaming and screaming until he gave up. I think I bit his hand or something."

During the alleged abuse she said he tried to kiss her on the lips. She said she told him: "That's what grown ups do. I'm not a grown up yet. I don't want to do it."

She told officers she was in pain after some of the alleged rapes. Under cross-examination she denied 'exaggerating'.

"She said 'it happened - I can't remember how many times he raped me'," said Judge Cartwright, summarising her evidence. She said she eventually stopped screaming and 'smacking and punching him' because it was 'useless'. "I knew I was scared - that's why I gave in" she said.

A second complainant said Wheatcroft touched her under her night dress after he asked her 'for a kiss and a cuddle' more than 20 years ago when she was eight years old, later confronting him about the allegation at a funeral in 2016.

A third complainant was a teenage girl when she says Wheatcroft kissed her inappropriately and grabbed her bottom and 'made moaning noises in her ear' in Leigh in 2016.

Wheatcroft was to say in his interview that he had never been alone with the children and that he never engaged in any sexual behaviour with them.

"I never in my life had a child sit on my lap" said Wheatcroft. The jury has been told he had no convictions or cautions for any sexual offences.

The trial continues.