A FORMER housemaster at an approved school yesterday came face-to-face with a second ex-pupil who is accusing him of sexual abuse five decades ago.

The second alleged victim of Roderick Ryall told a jury that he was treated to trips out in his car and was then forced to commit sex acts on the way home.

He was accused by Mr Ryall’s barrister of telling lies to win compensation, and changing the story he told police when he first complained ten years ago.

The accuser, now in his 50s, told Teesside Crown Court that he was taken from the school, in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, to a youth club in Darlington.

He said Mr Ryall, a former housemaster at Aycliffe Approved School, also took him to a folk night and afternoon tea as treats, but he was abused on the way back.

Mr Ryall, 68, of Mirfield, West Yorkshire, denies ten counts of indecent assault on three alleged victims during the Sixties and Seventies.

The second alleged victim – sent to the school for housebreaking – said he did not tell anyone at the time because he would not be believed.

He said Mr Ryall parked in a lane on the way back from the youth club and forced him to commit a sex act on him, and on another occasion he was taken to Durham University for scones and sandwiches before being abused.

Mr Ryall, who had been a housemaster at Aycliffe before leaving to continue his criminology doctorate at Cambridge, returned occasionally to the school as part of his studies.

The accuser, then in his early teens, said he was driven to a pub for a folk night, where he was given soft drinks and was again abused.

He said he was allowed to help himself to cigarettes after the attacks, and on other occasions was given a few shillings.

Asked by prosecutor Adrian Dent if he liked the sexual contact with Mr Ryall, he replied: “I didn’t like it, I learned to accept it.”

Tania Griffiths QC, defending, said what he now alleged differed greatly from what he first told police in 2000.

His allegations ten years ago did not result in prosecution, but police contacted him last year after another Aycliffe pupil made a complaint.

He denied suggestions from Ms Griffiths that he was motivated by trying to gain compensation when detectives spoke to him last year.

The trial continues.