A boy accused of raping four teenage girls and sexually assaulting them on Sheppey when he was aged 13 has gone on trial.

The schoolboy, from Gillingham, was allowed to sit behind his lawyer with his father instead of going into the dock at Maidstone Crown Court.

Now aged 15, he denies four charges of oral rape, three of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and one of sexual activity with a child.

Prosecutor Jason Sugarman said one of the attacks happened last year in toilets when he took the girl into a cubicle and locked the door. He then forced her arms around his neck and started kissing her.

He put his hand down her trousers, it was alleged. She told him to stop, but he replied: “Why? You know you like it.”

Mr Sugarman said the boy continued to sexually assault the girl, ignoring her pleas for him to stop, and committed oral rape, telling her: “Just do it and I will let you go.”

The second alleged victim was at a friend’s house when the boy, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, asked her to go to the kitchen with him to get some food.

But once there he started undoing his trousers and asked her to perform a sex act on him, said Mr Sugarman. She refused, telling him she had a boyfriend.

He forced her to touch him and then committed oral rape with her, it was alleged.

Mr Sugarman said the boy was with the third girl when she refused to perform a sex act on him and he then raped her.

The boy tried to get the fourth girl to put her hand down his trousers and perform a sex act on him, telling her: “Just do it.” She was also orally raped, said the prosecutor.

The matter was eventually reported to the police. When questioned by police in June last year the teenager denied all of the allegations but did not answer questions.

The trial continues.