Doctor Strange star accused of child sex charges 'threatened to burn victim's belongings'

28 April 2022, 16:47

Zara Phythian and her husband are accused of 14 child sex offences
Zara Phythian and her husband are accused of 14 child sex offences. Picture: Alamy

By Emma Soteriou

A Hollywood actress, who has been accused of numerous sexual offences, is alleged to have threatened to burn her 13-year-old victim's belongings after she insisted she did not want to see her anymore.

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Marvel actress Zara Phythian and her husband, Victor Marke, vowed to burn the girl's belongings when she said she no longer wanted to see the couple, a court heard on Thursday.

It comes as Phythian and her husband are on trial accused of 14 charges of sexual activity with a child

It is alleged that they carried out the sexual offences between 2005 and 2008 on a girl aged between 13 and 15, before the couple were married.

The alleged victim gave evidence on Thursday, claiming the couple groomed her as a 13-year-old and filmed themselves abusing her.

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The woman said she finally told a friend "her darkest secret" about the abuse when she was 18.

She later spoke to Phythian on the phone, jurors were told.

"I said I am not coming back.

"Zara said: 'Don't come back, I'm burning all your stuff'."

The woman previously claimed that Marke threatened to smash her kneecaps if she disclosed the abuse too.

She told Nottingham Crown Court: "He just said nobody would believe me if I told them anyway.

"They always had a power over me."

Phythian whose legal name is now Zara Marke and her husband, deny the 14 charges of sexual activity with a child.

The trial continues.

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