Admin note: In March 2012, Philip Jones’ brother Alwyn was found guilty and jailed for six counts of sexual activity with a child and two of indecent assault.
A former Gwent miner has been jailed for seven years at Cardiff Crown Court for raping a schoolgirl at his home.
Philip Jones lured the girl into playing an adult board game called “fantasy for lovers”.
The girl, now 15, told how Jones of Beech Grove, Oakdale, near Blackwood, took off her clothes as she kept on losing in the game.
Divorced Jones, aged 39, teased the girl into playing the game on her birthday after claiming he played it with his former wife.
The girl told a jury; “if your counter landed on certain squares you had to take the other person’s clothes off. I went along because I thought it was just a fun game.
The next thing I knew was that I ended up half naked. David Morris, prosecuting described how the girl landed on a forfiet square during the game.
She had been stripped down to her bra and long T-shirt as odd-job man Jones, aged 39, asked her to carry out the forfiet in front of the open fireplace.
Mr Morris said “Jones told the schoolgirl to play a pretend tennis shot when she landed on a forfiet square.” “Jones stripped naked and held her arms to help her play the tennis shot,” said Mr Morris.
But the court heard Jones then told her; “I like your body.” Jones then asked the girl to try on lingerie he bought his wife.
She said; “He said he missed his wife wearing the underwear and asked me to put them on.
He then took photographs of me.” Jones is then alleged to have told her; “I can`t wait until you are 16 when I can do all the things I want to do to you.”
Cardiff Crown Court heard how the girl was a regular visitor to Jones`s house.
But the girl told how he began touching her during her visits. She said; “He used to tickle my bottom and said not to tell anybody. I didn`t like it, but I was too frightened to tell anybody.
I was frightened about what he might to do me or my family.” Out-of-work Jones is alleged to have raped the girl when she fell asleep on the settee during a later visit.
The girl told how she had been feeling ill, but awoke to find Jones on top of her forcing her to have sex. Jones admitted owning the “Fantasy for Lovers” boardgame, but said he had never played it.
He said he bought it to play with a lover after his first marriage broke up, but ‘never got round’ to playing it. But Jones admitted owning sex aids, a quantity of pornographic literature and a quantity of women’s underwear.
Jones denied rape, attempted rape and three charges of indecent assault, but he was found guilty.
