A convicted child rapist who now identifies as a woman told a jury that a new case against her is: ‘a load of bollocks.’

Carrie Cooper, 52, who was previously called Gary, is accused of sexually abusing a young girl in Hertford between 2007 and 2012.

A court previously heard that she crept into the girl’s bedroom and repeatedly molested her before telling the victim it was ‘their secret’.

Carrie Cooper, who is currently serving a 14-year-old sentence for raping a child, has denied the new allegations (Picture: SWNS)

The alleged victim, who went to the police in 2016, said her abuse started when she was just seven years old, a jury at St Albans Crown Court heard.


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Cooper is currently serving a jail sentence of 14 years and 4 months for raping a 12-year-old girl in Basingstoke in July 2011.



When she was questioned at Parkhurst Prison on the Isle of Wight, Cooper said about the new case: ‘It didn’t happen. It is not true. What she said is not real – not in this life time, not in any life time.’

In the witness box Cooper told the court: ‘I didn’t do none of this. It is a load of bollocks.’

In angry exchanges with prosecutor Wayne Cleaver, Cooper said: ‘I didn’t do it. Jog on.’

Cooper told St Albans Crown Court that the allegations were ‘a load of bollocks’ (Picture: PA)

At the start of the case, Mr Cleaver said: ‘Cooper began with sexual assault and progressed to assault by penetration. It was repeated, it was regular and it was unwanted.

‘The defendant actively discouraged her from revealing what was happening because it was their secret.

‘While it was going on, the girl knew it was wrong but she lacked the maturity of how to deal with it as she was only a child.’

The charges were brought after the alleged victim told a friend in June 2016, who encouraged her to tell her mother. The police were then contacted.

She’s serving time at Parkhurst prison on the Isle of Wight (Picture: PA Archive)

On Thursday Mr Cleaver, in his closing speech, told the jury the victim’s evidence was ‘measured and restrained.’ He said Cooper was trying to be ‘manipulative and a chancer.’

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He continued: ‘His protestations of innocence ring hollow. They come from a convicted sex offender who has admitted he has a sexual interest in girls.’

At the end of the prosecution case Cooper was found not guilty of five charges of assault by penetration on the direction of the judge, Recorder Mark Ockelton.

She pleaded not guilty to five alternative charges of sexual assault of a child.

Cooper now faces six charges of sexual assault on a child under 13 and five of assault by penetration.

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