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Two boys indicted of raping an eight-year-old lady will not be giving justification at their Old Bailey trial, their lawyers reliable today.
The boys were both elderly 10 when they were indicted last year of assaulting the lady in Hayes, west London.
The charge sealed the box currently and the jury was told it would retire to cruise verdicts on Friday.
The boys, one elderly eleven and one elderly 10, have been sitting nearby their mothers during the week-long trial.
They repudiate dual counts of rape each and pick charges of attempted rape.
Chetna Patel, fortifying the younger boy, told the court: I do not intend to call him. The jury has a full twin of his talk since at the time that he was arrested.
Linda Strudwick, for the comparison boy, said: He will not be giving evidence.
But she review a minute from the boys clergyman that pronounced the child was a indication pupil, you do his task on time and not removing in to trouble.
He is a assured and happy boy, pronounced the teacher. She added: I can endorse he is not a bully. He has never exhibited passionate behaviour.
Mr Justice Saunders sent the boys and their mothers afar whilst the jury listened shutting speeches by the barristers.
He told the jury: I have concluded the defendants and their mothers need not be present. I am endangered that they do not outlay longer in a justice ambience than they need to.
Rosina Cottage, prosecuting, told the jury the box depended on either they believed what the small lady told police.
The counterclaim barristers will residence the jury tomorrow.
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