TWO teenage girls told a court yesterday they were sexually abused by a Gwent man.

Glyndwr Jones, 71, of Castle Court, Pontywaun, Crosskeys is accused of thirty charges involving acts of gross indecency, indecent assault and committing serious sex offences.

The complainants are eight girls and two boys.

He has been adjudged as unfit to plead and the jury have to decide on hearing witnesses whether he committed the offences.

Some of the alleged offences, said prosecutor John Holmes, go back twenty years or more.

Yesterday Newport Crown court heard from two of his alleged victims.

The first, a girl under 16, alleges she was sexually abused when she was a child and said: "I felt angry about what happened as I got older."

The witness said that she told a relative what had happened to her and she was told to go to the police.

At the time, she said she didn't think the matter would come to court and she was too frightened to tell her father.

But she felt if she had not spoken out, the entire matter would have been a secret for life.

Mr Holmes said that among the activities of Jones was kissing the alleged victims, exposing himself, and making them carry out indecent acts.

Sometimes he would give them small amounts of money.

When arrested he denied any wrong doing.

A second witness, a teenager, said she was also abused when she was a child.

Jones, she claimed, would make her touch him indecently.

"He didn't hurt me, he just touched me."

She added "He used to be really nice to me. I was scared to tell anyone what was going on and I didn't confide in anyone at school."

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