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Mary Sewell told Merthyr Crown Court that she didn’t believe her husband Mark Sewell was guilty
The wife of a former Jehovah’s Witness elder accused of sex assaults told a jury that she was unconcerned at seeing a semi-naked teen lying on their bed.
Mary Elizabeth Sewell, speaking at Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court yesterday, said the girl was lying face down, clothed from her bottom down but with her top half covered with a towel, for her husband Mark Sewell to massage her.
“It did not cause me any concern,” Mrs Sewell, a beautician, told the jury.
“I am quite aware that it happened. She was often massaged. She had shoulder and top of the neck problems and she used to ask him if he would massage her.”
She denied seeing her husband straddling the girl and said that her husband had an interest in massage and that her and her husband had performed massages on each other.
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