A man sexually assaulted two young girls a decade apart and offered one of them £10 a week to allow him to carry on the abuse, a jury has been told.

Martin Smart is said to have made the suggestion of payment to the girl when she was aged about 14 or 15 years old.

But the 46-year-old, from Corsham, whose wife used to foster children, denies any wrongdoing saying the alleged incidents never took place.

The girl sobbed in the witness box at Swindon crown court as she watched a recording of an interview she gave to the police.

In it she told how Smart had got her to indecently touch him some time between 2006 and 2008, which she did as she was afraid to say ‘no’.

In the following days she saw him again and he offered to give her the money if she would carry on doing it.

“He offered me £10 a week to do it for him,” she said.

But she said she refused and, although she told a close friend about it, swore her to secrecy until she made a complaint to the police in late 2010.

Another girl also alleged that she had been abused by Smart a decade earlier when she was just ten years old.

The girl, now a woman in her 20s, said he got her to perform oral sex on him during the alleged incident in 1996.

When he was questioned the defendant denied all of the allegations, saying they did not take place.

Smart, of Lypiatt Road, Corsham, denies all three charges of sexually abusing children. The trial continues.