She said: 'They saw the vulnerability in me and preyed on that, and saw my mum was struggling, and took advantage of that. In an earlier videotaped interview played to the jury that the alleged victim gave to police, she told how the Markes 'preyed' upon her. I got stuck because I had this secret and I could not tell her.'
I thought that if I was to say anything, then my family would hate me. Speaking from behind a screen, the girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said she 'would never have come forward' and planned to 'die with my shame' - but had recently become a mother herself, and felt she had 'no option to speak my truth' in a bid to stop anyone else being targeted in the same way she claimed to have been.
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Today their alleged victim tearfully told the trial how she finally revealed what she described as her 'darkest secret' years later when a police officer knocked on her mum's door to say another girl had claimed Marke had abused her, and asked 'if she knew anything'.Īt that time, the court has heard how Taekwondo black belt Zara was enjoying 'unprecedented personal and professional success' thanks to her acting career, including the role of 'Brunette Zealot' in Doctor Strange. The attacks are claimed to have happened between 20. The couple filmed most of the abuse in bid to recreate their favourite porn scenes, the prosecution say. Phythian, who starred in the 2016 Marvel film viewed as Cumberbatch's blockbuster breakthrough, is alleged to have targeted the teenager with Marke. Zara said: 'Don't come back, I'm burning all your stuff'.' The woman, who was a child at the time of the alleged offences, said that she finally told a friend 'her darkest secret' about the abuse when she was 18, and had later spoken to Zara on the phone, telling jurors: 'I said I am not coming back.
She claims they groomed her as a 13-year-old girl and filmed themselves abusing her after plying the victim with dark rum. The couple arrived at Nottingham Crown Court today for the second day of their trial, where their alleged victim gave evidence for the first time. Martial arts expert Zara Phythian, 36, from Mansfield, who starred in Marvel's Doctor Strange with Benedict Cumberbatch, is on trial accused of 14 charges of sexual activity with a child with her spouse Victor Marke, 59. A British Hollywood actress accused of sexually abusing a schoolgirl with her taekwondo 'master' husband vowed to burn their alleged victim's belongings when she said she no longer wanted to see the couple, a court heard today.