A classic car restorer has denied raping a 12-year-old girl and told a jury she has invented her account of being groomed and abused by him. Jonathan Bowyer told Exeter Crown Court he had no sexual contact with the girl until she was 16 and then started a consensual relationship which resulted in her becoming pregnant. He said he had never raped her or abused her when she was aged 12 and 13 and denied groping her after inviting her to his aviary to look at newly hatched budgies. Bowyer, 47,...
