Neville Neville launched a drunken sexual assault on a woman who had given him a lift home, a jury has heard.
The father of footballing stars Phil and Gary appeared in court today accused of sexual assault on a woman in the early hours of March 23.
The court also heard that Neville, 63, had ‘far too much to drink’ when his victim had given him a lift and that as she was about to drop him off near his home on Larkfield Close, Bury, he lunged at her and shoved his tongue down her throat.
She said she told him to stop but he persisted and grabbed her breast before he pushed his hand down her trousers and inside her underwear.
The jury heard how Neville forced her thighs apart he then sexually assaulted her in a ‘rough’ manner, the court was told.
Neville eventually got out of the car and she drove off.
Married Neville did not deny the incident took place but claimed it was consensual.
Peter Cadwallader, prosecuting, said: “The Crown say it was not consensual and he knew full well it was not consensual because she told him so.
“The defendant did not stop with kissing her. He pushed his hand up her top and grabbed her breast.
“By that stage she was feeling more and more distraught and frightened by the persistence.
“She did not know what it would end with.”
He added that she had been so frightened that she had wet herself in the car.
The victim, during her police interview, told the officer that she felt cheap after the incident.
“I felt I was doing him a favour on dropping him off because it was snowing. He abused that kindness really,” she said.
“I did not want him to fall in the snow or slip. And he is a big guy so I said ‘I will drop you off’. I had no reason not to give him a lift.”
The trial continues.
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