Soap star and actor Ben Freeman, best known for his part in Emmerdale, has denied raping a 16-year-old girl he met while on vacation two years ago.
According to The Mirror, Freeman, who is at the moment standing trial in Barbados for the crime, broke down in court having admitted that he did sleep with the girl.
Freeman told the High Court that the girl’s step-mother introduced them and had in fact “offered the information” that she was only 16.
“She seemed a nice, bright, interesting girl,” Freeman said. “She was smiling and laughing a lot, so she seemed quite fun.
“I knew that she was younger than me the first night we spoke but she seemed mature for her age.”
Freeman is now accused of forcing the girl to have sex with him in November of 2006.
