A SCHOOLBOY has told a jury how he was left shaking after a single mother made sexual advances towards him when he visited her home.

The teenager said 43-year-old Samantha Williamson kissed him, tried to get him to touch her intimately, and attempted to grope him.

Ms Williamson, of Catcote Road, Hartlepool, denies four separate child sex charges and went on trial at Teesside Crown Court.

A jury of six men and six women heard how she was drunk and kept telling the boy not to reveal to anyone what had happened.

He said he was "shocked and shaking" by what she did, escaped by lying about needing the toilet, and then left the house in 2015.

The following day, he told three teachers what had happened and the police were called in, said prosecutor Christine Egerton.

Miss Egerton told the jury that Ms Williamson denied making any advances towards the youngster, but they had argued about him having a block of cannabis.

The teenager said Ms Williamson tried to kiss him on the lips, but she kept hitting his cheek as he squirmed away.

"At first, I didn't know what was going on," he said in a recorded interview with police days after the allegations were made.

"She sat on my knee, and I was trying to get out from under her without hurting her.

"She tried to kiss me on the lips, but I kept turning my head and she kept hitting my cheeks.

"She did get my lips for a second or two then I resisted out of it. She just kept saying over and over she was p***ed, in other words drunk."

Ms Williamson has pleaded not guilty to two charges of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, attempted sexual activity with a child and sexual activity with a child.

The complainant said the woman exposed her right breast from beneath her vest top, and tried to get him to touch it.

He said she had drunk seven or eight little glasses of wine, and was unsteady on her feet.

Under cross-examination from Stephen Littlewood, defending, he said it "could have been possible" that she had only had a couple.

He disputed Mr Littlewood's suggestion that there had been a row over drugs.

Judge Stephen Ashurst told the jury that sexual allegations often invoke strong feelings, but the panel must approach the case with an open mind, and without pre-conceived ideas.

The trial continues.