For a second I thought he was going to do something playful, like pull me under water. We were in the area of the pool where if you put your feet on the bottom the surface of the water was just below your armpits. Here I give you twenty examples of how far from normal society those desires can impel a man and his boy to explore the world of male incest. There are sons and fathers whose basic needs are only sated by the blending of their naked bodies, fathers and sons whose craving for each other can only be expressed by raw sex. There are sons whose love for their fathers is imbued with lust, fathers who see their sons as objects of sexual satisfaction.
Here I give you twenty examples of how far from normal so DESCRIPTION: Hughes also denied that, saying it was a cold room and he always napped in a dressing gown.DESCRIPTION: There are sons whose love for their fathers is imbued with lust, fathers who see their sons as objects of sexual satisfaction. Women who worked as wardrobe assistants on the show told the jury they felt uncomfortable waking him from such naps because he would lie naked on the couch. The court heard he would nap and meditate during breaks on set. "You are absolutely wrong," Hughes replied. Jessica Hughes said although she was only seven at the time, she would have remembered such a remark and told her parents.ĭuring Hughes's three days on the witness stand, prosecutor Gina O'Rourke put it to him that as the star of a popular television show he thought he could do as he liked. She told the jury she said to Jessica Hughes: "I told you not to leave me alone with him." Now 36, the mother of two flew from London to take the witness stand.Ī sixth woman, whose accusations are not the subject of the charges, also gave evidence. The couple's daughter, Jessica Hughes, also gave evidence. "It's not as if I brushed it aside I saw no evidence to suggest it was true," Ms Gardiner said. Robyn Gardiner leaves the court building after the verdict was handed down. She was asked about the first time she heard of an allegation against her husband - that he exposed himself to a young girl at their home in the 1980s.
Ms Gardiner, a talent agent, gave evidence in defence of her husband. He could not recall why the girl did not join them for a subsequent family holiday, but said the two families stopped talking because the girl's mother wanted to have sex with his wife, Robyn Gardiner. The court also heard that Hughes had told the girl's mother he was going into the room to check on his own daughter, who was also asleep in the room. One of the alleged victims told the jury that when she was 14 or 15, the actor came into her room and sexually assaulted her. Robert Hughes denies lying to court over abuse claims.
Hey Dad! actor denies he felt 'entitled' as show's star, trial hears.Robert Hughes's wife accepted he 'had done nothing wrong'.Jury retires in child sexual assault trial of Robert Hughes.Hughes denied that, saying he slept naked and often used the bathroom at night but would never walk into the room where the girls were staying. His swimmers were pulled down.ĭuring the trial the court heard of sleepovers at Hughes's home where the actor would walk naked into the room where the girls were sleeping and expose himself to them. The other was nine when Hughes told her to swim between his legs at Manly Beach. The youngest of the two victims who Hughes indecently assaulted was seven when Hughes put her hand on his genitals. The court heard Hughes sexually assaulted one woman when she was 14 or 15 years old in her own bed. The nine charges he was found guilty on related to three of the five alleged victims.Īs the verdicts were read out Hughes stood up in the dock and yelled: "I am innocent". Hughes had pleaded not guilty to the 11 charges that he either sexually or indecently assaulted five girls between 19. Actor Robert Hughes convicted of child sexual assault (Claire Aird)