The children's coach at Chelsea repeatedly raped a 12-year-old girl at their training centre in Surrey

 

The children's coach at Chelsea repeatedly raped a 12-year-old girl at their training centre in Surrey, a court has heard. 

Shane Hughes, 31, allegedly abused the girl 15 times over four months in a physiotherapy room, where she was supposed to be getting treatment for a knee injury.

 

Prosecutor John Livingstone told the said that the first attack happened after he told her to take her clothes off and get on the massage table.

Mr Livingstone added: 'She said "No, what is happening?" He then pushed her back on the massage table and told her not to scream and, though she did, he put his hands over her mouth and forced her clothes off,' reports The Sun.

It alleged that he raped the girl and forced her to perform a sex act, Kingston Crown Court heard.

Hughes, who is believed to have been the Premier League club's children's coach, is said to have carried out the offence in 2011 at their training headquarters in Cobham, Surrey.

The girl is now 16 years old, and Hughes is facing 14 counts of rape in relation to a child under the age of 13.

It's also alleged that he asked for the girl's sister's phone number. He was arrested after a teacher found naked photos of the coach on her phone, the court heard.

At the time, he was cautioned for inciting a child to engage in sexual activity but the girl later made the rape allegations. 

Hughes, of Lenham in Kent, denies the charges and was granted conditional bail at an earlier hearing at Guildford Crown Court in May.