A TEACHER used a camcorder borrowed from school to film himself having sex with a teenage pupil, a court heard.

Colin Povey, 41, a languages teacher at Haslingden High School allegedly videoed the sex act after inviting the pupil back to his house for private tuition, a jury was told.

The filming was the culmination of a series of indecent assaults and other sex acts carried out on the boy, a jury at Preston Crown Court was told.

Povey, of Narcissus Avenue, Helmshore, faces three charges of indecent assault and three further indecency charges on the same boy between June 1993 and April 1994.

The schoolmaster, who is married with two young children, denies all the allegations.

The court heard the alleged abuse started after Povey invited the boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, back to his house for extra French lessons. On one occasion the alleged victim said he and Povey were sitting together on the sofa in the teacher's living room when he started telling him about homosexual experiences at university.

He added: "He placed his hand on my thigh and started to rub it and suggested I take my pants down. He was talking about when he was at university and the things that used to happen.

"I just smiled and thought he was joking, then he pulled my boxer shorts down. I was very confused but I trusted that it wasn't wrong. All of a sudden he stopped and said he would lose his job if the school found out and I said I wouldn't tell anybody."

The court also heard that Povey had wrestled with the boy and shown him a pornographic video, which was later recovered by police from the teacher's home.

The boy stopped visiting Povey's home after the alleged incident with the camcorder and went to police in August 2000.

Povey was arrested in October that year.

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