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A man who claims he was indecently assaulted as a schoolboy by BBC radio presenters Tony and Julie Wadsworth threatened to call the police after the couple turned up outside his mother’s house, a court has been told.

The married presenters, who used to work for Birmingham’s Radio WM, are accused of encouraging seven boys to take part in sexual activity in woods near Atherstone Golf Course in Warwickshire in the 1990s.

Warwick Crown Court has heard how the couple delighted in having sex outdoors after encouraging boys as young as 11 to watch them.

Julie, now 60, allegedly invited under-age boys to join in and turned up to meets wearing white high heels and a “flasher’s Mac” while her 69-year-old husband Tony was her “look out and minder”, jurors have been told.

The couple, now of Broughton Astley, Leicestershire, deny charges of outraging public decency and indecent assault against boys aged around 14.

The court heard yesterday from a man who said he first met them on September 5, 1992, when he said the couple had sex up against a tree in full view of himself and his friends.

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“We were in the fields and a lad came down the path and said ‘There’s a man and woman up there and I swear she has no knickers on!’” he said.

“We went to have a look. She was wearing a skirt with a split all the way up one side and you could see she was wearing no knickers. They knew we were looking, they were laughing and giggling. They wanted us to see. They went in to the trees and were up against a tree, touching each other. Mrs Wadsworth beckoned us in to come closer. As people walked past with dogs they would wait for a minute because there were gaps in the trees and you could see in.

“Mrs Wadsworth asked if there was anywhere more private. We said the Outwoods, near to the golf course, was quieter. They said ‘Do you want to show us where it is?’”

The man said the boys took the couple to the area, where the Wadsworths started having sex against a tree.

“They asked if we wanted to see them again, and we said ‘Yes’,” he added. “Mrs Wadsworth said: ‘Come back next week and you can have a play’. I went back with another friend the following Saturday and she was wearing a long, cream flasher mac.

“I saw later she had white stockings, suspenders and no underwear or top on underneath. They went into the trees and she said ‘Come in one at a time’. My friend went inside. I couldn’t see anything and he was only in for a couple of minutes. He came back out and said ‘I’m not doing anything, the bloke’s got a camera’.

“He told me she wanted me to go in. She was sat on a moss bank with her coat off. He was leaning back against a tree with a camera around his neck. I said I wasn’t doing anything with the camera there, and she told him to go for a walk.

“They said to come again same time next week but the camera thing scared me. If my mom had found out, she would have killed me.”

He said he did not return – but then the couple turned up outside his house. “They asked me to meet again and I said ‘No, I said I had a girlfriend’,” he said. “I was trying to make excuses. She said if I did come back she would make it worth my while. I told them if my mum saw them she would kill them and I would call the police.”

David Hislop QC, on behalf of Mrs Wadsworth, told the witness he had “got the wrong couple.”

Jurors have been told that Mrs Wadsworth had admitted during police interview to having sex with her husband in public, which she described as “outdoor hanky panky”.

She also told officers the outdoor sex had “spiced up their sex life” but she denied ever having any sexual activity with children.

Mr Wadsworth is not accused of touching the boys but is alleged to be guilty of indecent assault in the same way that an intruder’s look-out would be guilty of burglary.