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Carnegie Close, South Shields, Tyne And Wear, NE34
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A fire union official had sex sessions with a love-struck schoolgirl he seduced through explicit texts, a court heard.
A fire union official had sex sessions with a love-struck schoolgirl he seduced through explicit texts, a court heard.
As reported in later editions of last night's Chronicle Paul Ahmed had been introduced to the 14-year-old by one of her friends during a Christmas holiday, Newcastle Crown Court was told.
They kept in touch by swapping mobile messages, it was claimed.
But Ahmed's texts became more and more steamy, the jury heard.
And he used them to persuade the infatuated teenager to start a secret affair, the court was told.
Ahmed, a 44-year-old official with the Fire Brigades' Union on South Tyneside, would collect the girl from the car park of The Fountain pub in South Shields and take her to a local port. It is alleged that on one occasion he fondled her breasts and on another they engaged in a sex act.
Then, after taking her to his own home, Ahmed had full intercourse with the consenting girl on a sofa in the living room, said Michael Hodson, prosecuting.
Ahmed was finally arrested when the girl's mother read one of the texts, confronted her daughter and contacted police.
"The messages were very explicit," Mr Hodson told the court. "They were wholly designed to encourage her to behave in an indecent way with him."
Ahmed, of Carnegie Close, South Shields, denies two charges of indecent assault, gross indecency, inciting the girl to commit acts of gross indecency and another serious sexual offence. All the charges date between April and June 2003.
The court heard the girl, who will give evidence over a television link, kept a record of the texts in a special book.
They included X-rated descriptions of the sex acts Ahmed wanted her to take part in, a boast about his own performance and evidence that he knew what he was doing was wrong, the court heard.
"Nevertheless, he pressed and persuaded her by text messages that caused her infatuation with him and she was therefore willing to do what he suggested," Mr Hodson added.
Ahmed even planned to video himself having sex with the girl in a caravan but in the end the meeting never happened, it was claimed.
He later told police he did know the girl but that nothing inappropriate or sexual had ever taken place.
The trial continues.