Porn case jury told to ignore emotions

The jury deciding whether a Brownhills assistant teacher helped her husband film girls has been told to put emotions aside in reaching a verdict.

The prosecutor in the trial of Rosemary Foxall, pictured, said feelings of either contempt or sympathy towards her should be set aside before retiring to examine a case "that makes your blood boil".

Foxall along with her late husband Martin is accused of bringing young girls back to their Sadler Road home, where they allegedly filmed them in the bath and changing in the bathroom following swimming pool parties.

In summing up, prosecuting barrister Mr Phillip Bradley told Wolverhampton Crown Court: "This is the kind of case that makes your blood boil.

"You can not show any prejudice against Mrs Foxall before analysing the evidence.

"On the other hand, although Mrs Foxall had a fire at her house and lost her husband of 20 years after he committed suicide, you must show no sympathy."

Mr Bradley told the jury to look closely at evidence including a video clip that showed Foxall running a bath for two girls, while her husband filmed them through a peephole in the loft.

Foxall is heard saying in the footage "they want to go in together", before her husband replies "go on then".

Mr Bradley said: "There is no other explanation for this. Mr and Mrs Foxall worked as a team."

Foxall, aged 49, denies 10 counts of making indecent videos and photographs of children and possessing 147 indecent photographs and videos of young girls.