Allan Richards trial: Ex-Pc 'took sexual abuse victim to play pool at police station'
An officer accused of sexually abusing boys regularly took one of his alleged victims to play pool at a police station, a jury was told.
Allan Richards, who is also a former Scout master, helped coach a Birmingham boys' football team in the 1980s and became 'friendly' with players' parents, Birmingham Crown Court heard.
Giving evidence, one of the boys, now in his 40s, told the jury that Richards 'touched' him while he was in bed and that he would 'stare' at the young players as they got undressed.
He said: "We were changing in a communal area as we would normally do and Allan was in the room.
"He just seemed to be looking at us and I felt he was staring at me and I felt uncomfortable."
The alleged victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told the court that Richards, then in his mid-20s, would take him to a police station to play pool and to music concerts with other young men.
"He was friendly to me," he told the jury.
"We spent time together. He took us to Stechford Police Station where there were pool tables. He was really into music and we went to concerts."
Asked by Miss Miranda Moore QC, for the prosecution, who else attended the concerts with Richards, the witness said: "A group of male friends. I seem to remember they were younger than him, late teens to early 20s."
The witness, who was aged between 13 and 15 at the time of the allegations, also described to the jury the night Richards is said to have entered his bedroom and indecently touched him while he was sleeping.
Richards says he was in the boy's room because he 'heard a noise' in the street outside. The witness told the jury he never spoke of the incident again until he was approached by detectives last year.
The jury was also shown an extract from a diary recovered from Richards' home.
It is alleged Richards had an interest in the boys' pubic and body hair and recorded details of their underwear.
Detectives also found a hard drive that contained a list of male names it is alleged he had a 'sexual interest' in.
Richards, aged 54, of Thaxted Road, Tile Cross, Birmingham, denies 12 counts of indecent assault against eight boys aged 11 to 15, from 1982 to 2003.
The trial continues.
