An amateur radio enthusiast is standing trial accused of multiple historic sex offences.

John Terence Cull, known commonly as Terry, of Amesbury Road, Cholderton, is accused of sexually abusing a girl over a 15-year period in the 1970s and 1980s, where she was allegedly abused “two or three times a week.”

Jurors at Winchester Crown Court were shown the girl’s testimony to police, in which Cull’s accuser claims that the now 77-year-old asked her to choose what she wanted done to her from the pages of a pornographic magazine, “like a catalogue.”

As a four-year-old, the victim alleges he would “stroke” her privates over her underwear, and from the age of eight onwards, he made her “lie across his lap on the sofa without any pants.”

She also alleges that he began to assault her using his fingers, “nicking” her on some occasions as he did so, while she was also forced to dress in adult lingerie and touch Mr Cull inappropriately.

In her testimony, she claims that he acted like a “teacher”, teaching her how to give oral sex and showing her his semen. It is also claimed he would make “sexual phone calls” to the girl while pretending to be a stranger.

She alleges that the assaults made her feel like she was “being torn apart” and “burnt her brain,” and that she “died a thousand deaths to survive it.”

The case was reopened after the UK’s Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse was launched, with the initial report being made to police in 1985. As an adult, the girl suffered flashbacks of the abuse, which “bucketloads of psychotherapy” did not manage.

Cull has pleaded not guilty to all charges. The trial continues.