A man accused of rape sold his 10-year-old victim to builders for sex, a court heard.

Barry Watson is accused of taking cash and in return allowing two of his colleagues on a building site to abuse the young girl.

Gillian Etherton, prosecuting, told Chichester Crown Court that the men, called Mick and Romano, worked at Chichester Marina, Birdham, at the time of the allegations in the Sixties.

She said: "The complainant remembers two men each had sexual intercourse with her and Barry got a fee for that. They gave her two shilling and sixpence for her trouble.

"This is bewildering to us in a court 40 years on. It must have seemed the same to a 10-year-old child.

"She remembers being in contact with so many people who acted as if it was normal to behave sexually with a young child.

"She herself thought it was normal. After he sold her for sexual services, the defendant began to have sexual intercourse with her."

Watson, 57, of Oak Avenue, Bradford, lived in the Chichester area at the time of the alleged offences. He denies six charges of rape, four of indecency with a child and two of indecent assault.

The court heard the first indecent assault happened when the girl was aged eight or nine. She says that after being raped by Watson she became pregnant.

The girl, who also claims she was raped by Watson's late father Charles Watson, only recently made the allegations to her parents.

The trial continues.