A CONVICTED child sex abuser is on trial at Bradford Crown Court accused of repeatedly raping an 11-year-old boy.

David Cole, 58, denies 13 sexual allegations against his alleged victim, now a man in his early 30s, when he lived in the Keighley area in the 1990s.

Cole, now of Durrant Road, Poole, Dorset, has two previous convictions for sexually abusing boys, the jury was told.

In 2001, he was convicted at Bradford Crown Court of gross indecency with a child and supplying him with Ecstasy.

In November 2013, Cole was convicted of gross indecency and three offences of sexually assaulting another boy.

Prosecutor Stephen Wood said the defendant pleaded guilty to all those charges.

Cole is now accused of ten offences of indecent assault and three counts of raping another boy over a six year period.

Mr Wood said the abuse began when the child was six.

Cole would sneak into the room where the boy was sleeping and touch him indecently under the duvet.

It is alleged he became “emboldened” to commit further, more serious, sexual offences against him, leading to the three rapes when the boy was 11.

The jury was told that the child would visit Cole at his then address in the Keighley area.

They watched Eurotrash on the television and other young men would come to the house to smoke and drink.

It is alleged the boy recalled the acrid smell of “poppers” at the property.

The alleged victim claimed he was raped in Cole’s bed on three occasions. He said the abuse stopped suddenly when Cole challenged him to an arm wrestling contest and lost.

The man told the police he became isolated, lonely and depressed when he realised something was wrong.

He felt “horrible inside”, confused, ashamed and tormented, he stated.

The man, whose identity is protected by law, said Cole was a predator.

“I felt helpless and trapped. He was a bad person,” he said.

Cross-examined by defence barrister, Anne Brown, the man agreed that he began drinking heavily and smoking cannabis in his mid teens.

He said that had not affected his recollection of what went on.

He told the jury that he did not report the abuse until recently because he was petrified and would have “felt naked” if he had told anyone.

Cole denied the offences when he was arrested and interviewed by the police last year.

“The defendant says it is all lies,” Mr Wood told the jury.

The trial continues.