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Bath rape accused 'is paedophile' Bath rape accused 'is paedophile'
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A man accused of snatching a six-year-old girl from a bath and raping her is a convicted paedophile, a court has heard. A 35-year-old man accused of snatching a six-year-old girl from a bath and raping her is a convicted paedophile, Newcastle Crown Court has heard.
Peter Voisey, of Blyth, Northumberland, denies abduction, rape and sexual assault in Willington Quay, North Tyneside, on 27 December last year.Peter Voisey, of Blyth, Northumberland, denies abduction, rape and sexual assault in Willington Quay, North Tyneside, on 27 December last year.
Newcastle Crown Court has heard how the youngster was repeatedly abused in Mr Voisey's car. The jury heard he molested a girl, aged 12, in the changing rooms of a leisure centre in Macclesfield, in July 2001.
She was found later, blood-stained and shivering in a freezing back alley. He admitted indecent assault and was convicted in September that year.
Locker room
The court heard Mr Voisey entered the female changing area at the leisure centre and watched two girls wash their hair in the shower room. He then grabbed one of them and put his arms around her.
He told her to be quiet and molested her, before spending another seven minutes in the locker room.
Robert Woodcock, prosecuting, told the jury that Mr Voisey had his hand down the front of his tracksuit at various times in the changing room and he had been caught on CCTV camera.
Mr Woodcock said Mr Voisey initially denied ever being in the area of the lockers or speaking to any girls.
Freezing alley
He said: "He explained his hand was down his trousers because he was 'holding himself' because he was 'absolutely bursting for a pee'."
During nine days of evidence, the Newcastle Crown Court jury have heard how the six-year-old was taken from the bathroom of her flat and driven away by an intruder on 27 December.
She was subjected to two serious sexual assaults before she was dumped naked and shivering in a freezing back alley.
The defence case has yet to open. The trial continues.