A former blockbuster extra, accused of pushing a schoolboy off a cliff, has told a court he went to the site of the alleged crime "because of a film". 

Anthony Stocks, 54, is accused of pushing the boy over the top of the 100ft cliff after the child tried to stop him molesting a girl - which he also denies. 

Stocks told jurors on Wednesday, May 29, he wanted to take the boy to the cliff edge at Ovingdean near Brighton, Sussex, to "see where they filmed Quadrophenia" - a 1979 British drama film. 

The movie ends with the protagonist crashing his scooter over a cliff-top on the Brighton seafront.

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Stocks, from Iceni Close in Goring, is standing trial accused of attempted murder, rape of a girl under 13, and a string of sexual assaults on the same girl in the early 2020s. 

White-haired Stocks was on the verge of tears as he gave live evidence at Oxford Crown Court on Wednesday - telling jurors the underage girl he allegedly raped, touched his penis when he didn't want her to.

Visibly shaking and fidgeting on the witness stand, Stocks told jurors: "I got fed up with it, with her touching me."

Oxford Mail: Anthony Stocks Anthony Stocks (Image: NQ)Questioned by his defence barrister Martin Rutherford, Stocks said the girl touched his penis on several occasions "with her hands and mouth" and that he would push her away and call her a "stupid little b**ch."

Asked by Mr Rutherford if he had himself done "anything bad or sexual" to the girl, Stocks replied: "No, never."

The twice-married defendant - who told jurors he could not remember his first wife's name - was extremely soft-spoken.

He also told jurors he had never worked in a job in his entire life - apart from when he worked as an extra in the 2016 fantasy blockbuster Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and the 2018 space Western film Solo: A Star Wars Story.

Stocks is expected to continue giving evidence on May 30 about the boy's cliff fall. 

Stocks denies having pushed the boy and claims the fall was accidental.

The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was airlifted to St Georges' Hospital in Tooting, London following the fall, resuscitated, and placed into a medical coma for several weeks.

A mental health support worker who had regular conversations with Stocks following the incident told jurors that the defendant was "very, very focused" on the girl - but never mentioned the boy or asked how he was recovering after his fall. 

Justine Lindsley, a mental health support worker at Connection Support for Oxford, told the jury: "He talked about how he and the girl wanted to be together all the time and that, one day, they would be married.

"He never seemed interested in the boy, never mentioned him - which seemed strange as he was in hospital at the time."

Jurors heard earlier during the trial that the schoolboy had found out the twice-married defendant was allegedly molesting the girl and began to "interfere" by staying present with her at all times in a bid to stop the abuse from happening.