A FORMER RAF policeman and factory employee has denied forcing two women into having sex with his father.

Philip Nigel Coates, 46, claimed that he never watched the younger woman having sexual intercourse with his father, Raymond Coates, or took pornographic photos of her as she has alleged.

He also rejected her claim that the two men made her commit a sex act with an animal.

Philip Coates, of Ascot Way, Acomb, York, denies three charges of procuring a woman for sex, one of attempting to procure a woman for sex and one of inciting a woman to commit a serious sexual offence with an animal.

The jury at Leeds Crown Court heard that, in 1998, Coates received a suspended prison sentence for stealing from a civilian employer. He also has recent convictions for drink-driving and benefit fraud. He has no convictions for violence and the sex charges are alleged to date from more than 13 years ago.

Giving evidence on the fourth day of his trial, Philip Coates claimed that the older woman made up sex allegations against him because she hated him.

He denied threatening either woman, being violent towards the older woman or threatening her child's safety.

Dealing with the older woman's allegations that he arranged sex sessions with his father in return for help in buying a house and a car, he claimed that he bought the car by trading in a five-year-old Ford Cortina.

He alleged that he used money from an insurance claim to help buy the house, though his father arranged the mortgage for him.

The jury heard that the younger woman was 17 and Philip Coates was 31 when they met in a pub.

In court, he denied that he had deliberately exploited her because she was vulnerable, young and living alone without family or friends.

He also denied a claim from a former neighbour that he had been at Philip Coates's 40th birthday party, or had heard him talking about her having sex with an animal.

The trial continues.

Updated: 10:21 Friday, July 18, 2003