Oxfordshire – Brazilian man denies sexually assaulting girls

Walter Klen, of Eynsham Road, Farmoor, is on trial at Oxford Crown Court.

The 60-year-old has denied 17 charges against two alleged victims.

A total of 15 charges are against a complainant who was aged around nine to 13 between 2003 and 2007.

The last two are regarding another girl in around 2008, when she was around 12.

The first 15 charges are said to have taken place in Moreton-In-Marsh, in the Cotswolds, and the last two are said to have been in Chipping Norton.

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On Monday, June 8, Klen took to the witness box in court.

He was asked about the specific allegations by his defence barrister Philip Romans.

When he was asked if the incidents had taken place, Klen replied: “No, never.”

Klen was asked about an allegation he touched one of the girls sexually under a blanket.

He said: “How could that have happened? Any movement would have been visible. It didn’t happen.”

When asked why he though the allegations had been made, Klen said: “I don’t know. She has completely changed the version of events.”

Prosecution barrister Richard Milne previously opened the case for the jury.

Mr Milne told the jury that Klen moved to the UK from Brazil in around 2003.

On the first complainant, Mr Milne said: “Her account is that she was sexually abused. That it went on for years.

“She said it started when she was quite young.”

The barrister told the jury the complainant’s account of when the alleged abuse started.

Klen is alleged to have been in a bedroom with the complainant and her sister.

Mr Milne said: “She said he put on a porn film and lay on the bed naked, playing with himself.”

He added that he asked her to touch his private parts and that she was ‘scared’ and ‘didn’t know what to do’.

The jury heard that on another occasion, Klen was wearing a dressing gown with nothing on underneath. Mr Milne said the complainant recalled Klen was ‘touching himself’.

Mr Milne added: “He made her lay on the bed and he was on top of her with the dressing gown open.”

The jury heard Klen allegedly wanted her to kiss his private parts.

The barrister said: “He brushed his penis against her private parts. She said it was a very odd feeling.”

Klen allegedly described it as ‘just a game’.

The jury also heard about several other alleged incidents of a similar nature.

The jury heard that the second complainant alleged that he unzipped his trousers and placed her hand on his private parts.

Klen was arrested and interviewed in 2023. He denied the allegations.

The trial continues.