The jury has retired to consider its verdict in the trial of Isle of Wight councillor who is charged with historic sexual abuse.
It follows a five-and-a-half-day hearing at Isle of Wight Crown Court, in Newport.
The 46-year-old man is charged with two counts of rape, between June 1990 and March 1992 and one of indecent assault of a girl aged under 13 years old, by having sexual intercourse, between March and June 1990.
The councillor has always denied committing the offences, which would have happened when both he and the alleged victim were both children.
Recorder Richard Onslow finished his summing up this morning (Monday) and has sent the jury out for its deliberations.
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