‘Control freak bully’ charged with 30 sex offences

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A Billinge man accused of being a violent sexual bully who assaulted nine females has denied the allegations.

Paul Hitchen is on trial at Liverpool Crown Court denying 30 sexual offences, including rapes, and additionally one of assault causing actual body harm and another of false imprisonment.


The jury has heard that many of the alleged offences occurred while Hitchen lived in Gantley Avenue, Billinge with his grandmother, to whom he was allegedly “domineering and aggressive”.





Alaric Bassano, prosecuting, has told the jury: “There is no reason for the nine complainants to have invented false allegations against him and his contention that they have independently done so defies common sense.”

He said that the children who Hitchen allegedly sexually abused were aged between nine and 16.


Love letters to that alleged victim were recovered from his jacket.



Hitchen is also alleged to have kicked one rape victim while she was pregnant causing her to bleed and after having previously physically assaulted her on other occasions and having kept her locked in his home for a day.


Quizzed about all the allegations Hitchen denied that they had taken place.

He denied being “possessive and jealous” and also disputed that he was “a control freak.”

The trial continues.