A SCHOOLGIRL was forced to take part in a sex show before being raped by a former Newport Neighbourhood Watch leader, a court heard yesterday.

The allegation was made at Newport crown court against award-winning former Gaer Neighbourhood Watch leader Charles Anthony Lane, (pictured) 56, from Elan Court, Bettws, who denies 24 sex and violence charges against women and young girls dating from the early 1970s to July 22 this year.

Prosecutor Martyn Kelly asked the alleged schoolgirl victim, now a woman in her 30s, to describe what had happened.

She said Lane, known as locally as Tony, "told me to get ready and dress up pretty in sexy clothes."

The woman said she wore high heels, a skirt and a blouse before Lane told her to put on a show for another man while he remained with them in the same room.

She said: "I was told to put on a show for this guy - to entertain him with a striptease."

The woman said that after she had performed a strip show Lane raped her.

Lane is alleged to have used a dog in two separate sex attacks on women and that he advertised his home for swinging parties in which women were forced to perform sex acts.

One of the women who alleges these assaults told the court that Lane had raped her and forced her into prostitution which included having sex with another woman.

She claimed that Lane, was "very manipulative" and that she lived in "fear" of him. She said: "He gets everything he wants and he picks on weak people like me." John Jenkins, QC, defending, asked the woman if she was part of "a set-up" to get Lane arrested.

Mr Jenkins said she was part of "a conspiracy to tell lies about Tony Lane." The woman replied: "No, it's all true."

Lane denies six counts of rape; four of committing indecency with children; four of indecent assault; one of causing or encouraging the prostitution of a girl under the age of 16; one of procuring a woman to have sex with himself and others by using threats or intimidation; one of abducting a 15-year-old girl; one count of attempted rape; four of assault occasioning actual bodily harm; one of grievous bodily harm and one of witness intimidation.

The trial continues.