A man accused of using witchcraft to traffic girls into the UK once proposed to one of his victims, it has been claimed.

Osezua Elvis Osolase, 42, was alleged to have imprisoned the teenager from Nigeria in a flat for three months.

The churchgoing girl told a jury at Canterbury Crown Court that Osolase – whom she knew as "Uncle" - visited her at the flat.

In July last year, she claimed he told her he wanted to make love – but she did not want to.

She claimed: "He said he wanted to play with me and make love to me. He said he wanted to take care of me. I didn't want to have sex and I told him. I told him I didn't want to sleep with him.

"Uncle took off his clothes then he took off my clothes. He then took a condom out of his wallet."

"He said he wanted to get married to me. I felt bad and I felt sad. I didn't love him, I didn't like him and I felt frightened of him."

Former security guard Osolase, of Beaumont Drive, Gravesend, has denied 13 offences including trafficking, rape, false imprisonment and sexual activity with a child.

The teenager – the third girl to give evidence at the trial – claimed Osolase, who was married to a German national, had helped bring her to the UK.

But after weeks inside the flat when the only person she saw was Osolase, who would arrive for sex two or three times a week, she managed to get the key as he slept and ran away.

She claimed: "I didn’t want him to touch me. I told him I didn't want to have sex."

The teenager said Osolase found her in a park nearby and took her back to the flat, telling her: "Do you think you are clever?"

She added: "I didn't run away again because I had no place to stay."

The prosecution allege Osolase had intended taking all three girls to Italy to be sold into prostitution.

They also claim he used juju magic rituals to control the youngsters after they were tricked to come to the UK.

The teenager claimed she was to work for a "madam" in Italy, who would
"lay a curse" on her if she refused.

The trial continues.