Man ‘got teen niece to pose topless’

A man got his niece aged 13 or 14 to pose topless in cut-up shorts for a blue movie that would make €1,000, it was claimed during a trial yesterday.

He also allegedly told her he was blackmailing a member of staff at her school with photographs of a naked teacher following a relationship.

The middle-aged accused pleaded not guilty to indecently assaulting his niece between April and September 2004. He went to trial before Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin and a jury of nine men and three women at Cork Circuit Criminal Court, where he denied all particulars of what she said.