Man who ‘raped girl and pushed brother off cliff’ explains reason for trip

A man on trial for throwing a man off a cliff to stop him from attacking his sister claims he is just a “movie buff.”

Anthony Stocks, 54, claimed on Wednesday he wanted to show the boy the location in Ovingdean where scenes for the 1979 film Quadrophenia were shot. That movie ends with the main character Jimmy Cooper crashing his scooter off a cliff on the Brighton seafront.

In court, Stocks, visibly nervous and agitated, claimed that the young girl he allegedly raped had tried to touch his genitals against his will. He told the court: “I was sick of her touching me.”

He described how the girl, who was under 13 at the time, touched him “with her hands and mouth” and that he pushed her away and called her a “stupid little —–“.

When asked by Mr Rutherford if he had done “anything bad or sexual” to her, Stocks insisted: “No, never,” the Mirror reports.

The 54-year-old denied all allegations of incitement and abuse and also told jurors that he had been unemployed his entire life, apart from a few minor roles as an extra in the 2016 box office hit “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” and the 2018 space saga “Solo: A Star Wars Story.”

Justine Lindsley, who provided mental health support to Stocks after the incident, told the court that he was “very, very focused on the girl” but never mentioned her brother or inquired about his recovery after he fell 100 feet off a cliff. Stocks said the fall was an accident.

She said: “He talked all the time about how he and the girl wanted to be together and that one day they would get married. He thought she listened to him and understood him like no one else. He talked about how he needed to see her and missed her. He talked about her all the time. He never seemed interested in the boy, never mentioned him – which seemed odd considering he was in hospital at the time.”

The ten-year-old boy, who must remain unnamed due to court orders, was flown by helicopter to St George’s Hospital in Tooting, London, where he was placed in an induced coma for several weeks. Jurors were told during the trial that the boy had discovered the defendant’s sexual abuse of his little sister and had tried to “intervene” by staying with his sister at all times to stop the abuse.

In a shocking turn of events, Stocks, reportedly angered, decided to lure the underage boy with the chance to visit Chelsea Football Club’s stadium in London – only to then take him to the cliffs at Ovingdean, near Brighton, Sussex, where he allegedly threw the boy off a steep cliff. An eyewitness who was at the bottom of the cliff claimed to have heard a “scream” and seen “a small figure fall as if it had been thrown off the cliff”.

Stocks had reportedly spoken to the girl earlier and said, “I’m going to push him off a cliff. I want to get rid of him so we can be together.”

The court was also told that Stocks had previously taken the boy to a quarry in Oxfordshire and apparently considered pushing the boy off the cliffs there, but then apparently changed his mind.

Stocks, of Iceni Close in Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, is currently on trial for attempted murder, the rape of a girl under the age of 13 and multiple counts of sexual assault of the same girl in the early 2020s.