A Suffolk woman accused of having sex with a schoolboy nearly four decades ago when she was in her early 20s has denied fantasising about having sex with a teenage boy.

Giving evidence during her trial at Ipswich Crown Court, 60-year-old Gillian Mitchell accused the alleged victim, who is now 50, of telling "a pack of lies".

Cross-examined by prosecution counsel, Marc Brown, Mitchell denied that she had fantasised about having sex with a teenage boy and that she had found “something alluring about taking the virginity of a 13-year-old boy”.

In answer to a suggestion by Mr Brown that she had had sex with the boy for her "own selfish needs" she replied: “No. That’s disgusting.”

She also denied that she had found teenage boys attractive and that she had wanted to be “a naughty older woman”.

Mitchell, of Butt Road, Great Cornard, has denied five offences of indecent assault and two of gross indecency with a boy, 

The boy was aged 12 to 14 years old at the time of the alleged offences which are said to have taken place between 1985 and 1988.

It has been alleged that Mitchell touched the boy’s bottom at a wedding reception when he was 12 and had later put her hand inside his trousers in a taxi.

Mitchell had also allegedly had sex with him in a living room while his mother was asleep upstairs and had made up reasons for the boy to visit her house so that they could have sex.

She had also allegedly visited his house and had sex with him while his mother was at work.

Mitchell was interviewed by the police in 2020 and denied having any sexual contact with the alleged victim.

The trial at Ipswich Crown Court continues.