The third day of the Daryll Pitcher trial ended yesterday after testimony from the alleged victim’s father.
Mr Pitcher, 46, is charged with two counts of rape between June 1990 and March 1992 and one of indecent assault of a girl under 13 years old, by having sexual intercourse, between March and June 1990.
He has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
Since the start of the trial on Monday, the jury at the Isle of Wight Crown Court has heard about the alleged ordeal suffered by the woman at the hands of Mr Pitcher when they were both children.
She said:
“You took my virginity from me and that is something that should not have happened.”
Yesterday (Wednesday), the jury heard from the woman’s father, who recalled the time, almost 30 years later, his daughter told him about one of the alleged incidents.
He said:
“She had asked me to come over and talk to me about something.
“She said she had been raped by Mr Pitcher. We didn’t go into too much detail as she was very distressed.
“It was obvious she had suffered from a nervous breakdown.”
John Dyer, for the defence, questioned whether the breakdown had just been down to the alleged rape and not other factors.
Mr Dyer said in the woman’s father’s statement to police, she had told him there was pressure from work that had affected her.
However, she thought the breakdown was due to the rape.
Her father confirmed the woman had changed position at work because of the stress it was causing.
Another area focused on by both defence and prosecution was trying to pinpoint when the alleged offences took could have happened.
The woman has been unable to say exactly when the incidents took place but given broad timeframes in her childhood years through the use of her school uniforms and medical records.
School photographs were produced by the woman’s father from 1989 and 1990 which showed part of the uniform worn at the time.
Tuesday saw the woman deny making up the allegations, saying she wished she had imagined it and questioned why she would put herself through this if it were some weird dream.
The court heard her trauma symptoms were getting worse and she saw Mr Pitcher’s face on strangers.
The trial continues today (Thursday).
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