An 11-year-old girl told a jury how DJ Barry Bethell watched her as she changed her clothes at his home.

The schoolgirl had gone to the bungalow in Seasalter after being caught in rain during a journey home.

She told at jury at Canterbury Crown Court how she asked the TV personality if she could change out of her soaked school trousers.

But, it was alleged, as she stripped in his bedroom, Bethell, 65, stood and watched her before rubbing her thigh with a towel.

Through a CCTV link, the youngster said: “It was weird and very strange. He was just standing around when I was getting changed. It was just scary.”

Bethell, of Kimberley Grove, denies six charges of sexual assault and seven child porn charges.

Two child pornography charges have been dropped by the prosecution and the jury will return formal not guilty verdicts later.

Bethell has admitted eight other offences, including five of taking indecent images of a girl.

The schoolgirl also alleged she witnessed Bethell “kissing, hugging and bottom-pinching” other girls at his home, between 2004 and January, this year.

She said she first met the TV celebrity through a friend who was “doing some singing” at recording studios at his home.

The girl said: “It was a bit exciting and I asked if I could go with her.”

She said that during subsequent visits she saw Bethell “hugging and kissing and pinching bottoms” but added: “At the time I didn’t think it was weird.”

In January, she was on her way home from school in the rain and had forgotten her bus money and decided to go to Bethell’s home to change into dry trousers.

“He didn’t leave the room when I got changed and I thought that was a little bit scary.

“I didn’t say anything because I was in his house.”

She claimed that while changing, Bethell arrived with a towel and began drying her thigh before she changed into the dry clothes.

The jury heard that later when she had a conversation about the incident with a friend, the matter was reported to the police.

Earlier, a 14-year-old girl claimed that Bethell had encouraged her to do “breathing exercises” and competitions to “do the splits”.

The prosecution has alleged that Bethell had used his celebrity status to entice young girls to his home where he plied them with sweets and presents.

It was claimed that he had promised the girls help with modelling and singing careers but during visits had sexually assaulted them with “inappropriate kissing and touching.”

The case continues.