12:21 EDT, 13 May 2021
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An eyewitness saw Lady Lavinia Nourse sexually abuse a young boy twice while her late husband, a Court of Appeal judge, promised to deal with it , a court has heard.
Lady Lavinia, of Newmarket in Suffolk, is on trial at Peterborough s Nightingale court, in the Knight s Chamber at the city s cathedral, charged with historical sexual abuse.
The 77-year-old was married to Sir Martin Nourse, who died in 2017 aged 85.
Today, a woman told how she twice walked into a room and saw Lady Lavinia carrying out a sexual act on the boy.
Giving evidence, she claimed that she told Nourse s late husband what she had seen after each incident and he had promised to deal with it.
By Press Association 2021
Lady Lavinia Nourse
The widow of a Court of Appeal judge told police that her alleged sexual abuse of a young boy in the 1980s “simply never happened”, a court has heard.
Lady Lavinia Nourse, of Newmarket in Suffolk, is on trial at Peterborough’s Nightingale court, in the Knight’s Chamber at the city’s cathedral, charged with historical sexual abuse.
The 77-year-old was married to Sir Martin Nourse, who died in 2017 aged 85.
She was voluntarily interviewed about allegations of historical sexual abuse at Parkside police station in Cambridge in January 2019 with a solicitor present, the court heard on Thursday.
Lavinia Nourse, 77, of The Severals, Newmarket, arrives at court in Peterborough
- Credit: Jacob King/PA Wire
A man who has accused the widow of a Court of Appeal judge of sexually abusing him when he was a child in the 1980s told a court he realised the shame I carried wasn t mine to bear .
The 77-year-old was married to Sir Martin Nourse, who died in 2017 aged 85.
The charges, which all relate to the same male complainant, are five counts of indecently assaulting a boy and 12 counts of indecency with a child.
Jennifer Knight QC, prosecuting, earlier told the trial that the boy tried to bury away the memories of alleged abuse but that, years later, after he got married and had children, he became increasingly troubled by his recollection .
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Lady Lavinia Nourse arrives at Peterborough Cathedral Visitor And Learning Centre, where she is charged with 17 counts of historical sexual abuse (Jacob King/ PA)
The widow of a High Court judge has gone on trial charged with the historical sexual abuse of a young boy in the 1980s.
Lady Lavinia Nourse, of Newmarket in Suffolk, was married to Sir Martin Nourse, who died in 2017 aged 85.
The 77-year-old has gone on trial at Peterborough’s Nightingale court, in the Knight’s Chamber at the city’s cathedral, where she denies 17 counts of sexually abusing a boy under the age of 12.
Lavinia Nourse, 77, of The Severals, Newmarket, arrives at court in Peterborough
- Credit: Jacob King/PA Wire
The Suffolk-based widow of a High Court judge has gone on trial charged with the historical sexual abuse of a young boy in the 1980s.
Lady Lavinia Nourse, of The Severals, Newmarket, was married to Sir Martin Nourse, who died in 2017 aged 85.
The 77-year-old has gone on trial at Peterborough s Nightingale court, in the Knight s Chamber at the city s cathedral, where she denies 17 counts of sexually abusing a boy under the age of 12.
The charges, which all relate to the same male complainant, are five counts of indecently assaulting a boy and 12 counts of indecency with a child.