The jury will tomorrow consider its verdicts in the trial of a 55-year-old man accused of sexually abusing two girls almost 40 years ago.

James Pemberton denies an offence of attempted rape and allegations of indecent assault and indecency with a child, said to have been committed when his parents ran a hotel in central Bradford in the mid-1970s.

The jury at Bradford Crown Court began its deliberations today and was sent home overnight to resume tomorrow morning.

Pemberton, an electrician, of Glenlea Close, Pudsey, would have been about 17 at the time the alleged abuse was said to have taken place.

He told the court he was entirely innocent of all the charges.

The trial continues.