Woman 'unaware girls were filmed'

A teaching assistant accused of helping her husband film young girls as they bathed did not know he was videoing them from the loft, a court hears.

Rosemary Foxall, 49, from Brownhills in the Black Country, denies 10 charges of making and possessing indecent images.

She told police she had "never forced anyone to have a bath" and told officers her husband was "controlling", Wolverhampton Crown Court heard.

Her husband Martin has since killed himself.

The prosecution has alleged that Mrs Foxall prepared baths for the girls while her husband secretly filmed them after swimming pool parties at the couple's home.

In a video shown to her during a police interview, Mrs Foxall is heard telling her husband that two of the girls "wanna go in together".

A male voice then replies: "Go on then".

Husband 'over-powering'

When asked why she said that, she told officers she wanted him to go downstairs out of the way while the girls bathed.

She said in the police interview her husband had been "over-powering, obnoxious and controlling", the court heard.

The defendant said her husband would often go up into the loft where he kept his Scalextric and "personal stuff".

She told police: "We were never allowed in the loft. One, I do not like heights. But he said there was no need to go up there."

Asked if she was aware that her husband was filming the girls she replied: "No, sorry for shouting but no, no."

She said she was not aware there were any working video cameras in the house, the jury heard.

The court also was told that Martin Foxall kept pornographic DVDs in the bedroom and that the couple had an unhappy marriage.

The case was adjourned until Thursday.