Langham's son 'resented' accuser

Chris Langham with sons Siencyn (left) Glyn and Dafydd (right)

Chris Langham's son has told a jury he resented the girl with whom his father is accused of having underage sex.

Siencyn Langham, 30, said he could not remember the girl accompanying them on trips to Glasgow and Nottingham.

However, he said he resented other people being invited to family occasions which were meant for himself, his actor father and his two brothers.

Mr Langham, 58, of Golford, Kent, has denied indecent assault and two counts of a serious sexual offences.

He also denies 15 counts of making an indecent photograph of a child.

Siencyn, the oldest of five children, said he had blocked out occasions when the girl was there.

He could not recall her accompanying him and his father on a trip to Glasgow to film The Big Tease in 1998, he told Maidstone Crown Court on Tuesday.

Me and my brother attempted to speak to her the first couple of times and she had no interest in us Dafydd Jones-Davies

"I think possibly I've blocked occasions when she was there because I resented other people being invited to occasions when it was meant to be me and my dad and my two brothers," he said.

He and brothers Glyn and Dafydd, from the actor's first marriage to Sue Jones-Davies, were raised in Aberystwyth after their parents split up in the 1980s.

Siencyn, who was known as Josh or Shenks to his family and works as a television editor in Manchester, said he recalled Glyn sharing a room with their father on the Glasgow trip.

He said he was also unable to recall the girl accompanying his father on a trip to Nottingham to film Kiss Me Kate, where he was employed as a runner on the set.

The alleged victim has claimed she had sex with the 58-year-old actor in his dressing room as well as at hotels and at his home.

Dafydd Jones-Davies, 24, told the jury his father introduced him to her at the theatre.

He said: "He reckoned it would be beneficial for her to meet us as we've been through difficult times and she had been through difficult times.

"Me and my brother attempted to speak to her the first couple of times and she had no interest in us."

He said their first meeting occurred when he was 14 or 15 and the girl was a year above him in school.

Age gap

Neither son recalled the girl visiting them in Wales with their father.

Former Palace Theatre front-of-house staff member James Fraser was called by the prosecution to voice his concerns about the relationship between Langham and the alleged victim.

"My concerns are that hotel visits, fancy restaurants and expensive gifts don't really constitute what I would call a professional or suitable relationship," he said.

He said he thought it was unusual that the alleged victim was a friend of the actor because of the age gap and because she was under 16.

But he said Langham had been a model of decorum.

Mr Fraser told the jury that he raised his concerns about the relationship with the girl's mother. "She had what I describe as a laissez-faire attitude to the whole situation," he said.

The trial was adjourned until Wednesday.