Porn trial wife 'branded jealous'

A teaching assistant accused of helping her late husband film children at their Brownhills home has told a court how she felt "uncomfortable" with his attention towards young girls.

Rosemary Foxall told a jury at Wolverhampton Crown Court she was branded "jealous" after raising her concerns with husband Martin about his closeness to them.

The 49-year-old has denied any knowledge of camcorders being allegedly set up at their Sadler Road home to film young girls in the bathroom and bedroom.

Mr Foxall killed himself just days after being questioned by detectives last summer. The prosecution say his wife worked with him, inviting children she knew in the community back to their home for pool parties and running them baths while he filmed them through a peep hole in the loft.

Taking to the witness stand yesterday she claimed the 50-year-old laid out swimming kits for the children to play in an outside pool and insisted they get changed in specific rooms.

If they got muddy they would then go in the bath to clean up, she said.

She added Mr Foxall would often disappear at this point saying he was going out.

Foxall said: "Sometimes he was too friendly with the girls and I didn't like it. I felt more relaxed when he wasn't in the house and I think the girls did too.

"He was always picking them up, sitting them on his lap or he was cuddling them. It was just something I was uncomfortable with." She said she had asked him about this adding: "He told me to stop being jealous and to grow up."

Foxall is accused of 10 counts of making indecent videos and photographs of children and possessing 147 indecent photographs and videos of young girls, which she denies.

Firefighters allegedly stumbled across camcorder equipment and pornographic images of adults and children after investigating a fire last July.

Mr Foxall ran an outdoor pursuits centre, and he and his wife were well known in the community. The court heard yesterday he told police shortly before he died that his wife was innocent and he was responsible for everything.

She said she was never allowed into the loft as her husband did not want his belongings such as a Scalextric being damaged.

The trial continues.