A man from Esher accused of raping a girl under 13 nearly 30 years ago has told Kingston Crown Court the description of the perpetrator fits that of his brain damaged younger brother.

John Davies, 52, from Mill Road Esher, is accused of blindfolding the girl in the early 80s, when she was six or seven, on the bed of his previous house in Cowleaze Road, Kingston, then raping her.

Mr Davies is also accused of four counts of indecent assault on the same girl (woman A), as well as two more counts of indecent assault on the girl’s sister (woman B) during the same period. The women cannot be named for legal reasons.

Mr Davies was arrested at Heathrow airport on July 12 last year, coming off a flight from Bangladesh.

He denies all charges.

On Friday, July 30, Mr Davies, a specialist in human migration and a visiting research fellow at the University of Sussex, gave evidence at the trial at Kingston Crown Court.

Defence solicitor Peter Carter asked whether he was guilty of the alleged crimes.

Mr Davies said: “They’re not true - I did not do it.”

Mr Davies also claimed he had never met the children and, as far as he was aware, they had never been to his Kingston house.

Mr Carter then asked him whether, after reading woman A’s and woman B’s statements, anyone he knew fitted the descriptions of the man they claim assaulted them.

Mr Davies said: “Oh yes. Oh yes. The moment I read [the description] I thought ‘that bloody bastard’. If it is anybody, it is the description of Mark Davies, my brother.”

Mr Carter asked the defendant whether he thought his brother Mark, who is 19 months his junior, was responsible for the alleged crimes.

Mr Davies replied: “I don’t know. What I’m saying is the description given - that is the description of Mark.”

Earlier the court had heard from Hannah Webb, Mark Davies’ senior social worker from Kingston Social Services.

She told the court Mark Davies, who has had a history of alcohol abuse since he was a teenager, was took an overdose of heroin in 1999, leaving him with brain damage and physical disabilities requiring three calls a day from a social worker.

Mark Davies has never been investigated by police over the alleged crimes.

Earlier last week, the court heard evidence from the two women making the allegations against Mr Davies.

Woman A described several incidents of abuse, including the allegation of rape.

She said: “He took me upstairs and I didn’t want to go. I was afraid what might happen. I remember feeling full of dread.”

She told the court Mr Davies told her to remove the lower parts of her clothes and then blindfolded her, before raping her.

Mr Carter suggested to both woman A and woman B that, if they had been abused, it was not his client who was responsible.

Woman B told the court it could have been “no other person”.

The trial continues.