A BRIERLEY Hill road worker has told a jury he is not the man who tried to entice four schoolgirls in the Dudley area to get into his car for sex.

"I am in a relationship at the moment - I do not need to do that," 45-year-old Shawn Jones said as he stressed he had not made sexual comments to any of the teenagers.

The father-of-three is alleged to have complimented and blown kisses to the girls before asking them to get into his BMW.

But he said he was not even in the Cradley or Kates Hill area when two of the girls had been approached on the street and while he had been to KFC at Merry Hill and seen the other two girls, he said he had not behaved inappropriately.

"I made no sexual comments to any of these girls," said Jones.

"There is nothing I could have said that could have been misconstrued."

He told the six man, six woman jury at Wolverhampton Crown Court: "I am not the man who stopped to speak to the first two girls.

"I did not speak to the two girls in the car at Merry Hill. I did not tell them I loved them or that I was attracted to them. They were giggling and looking at me and when I asked 'What?' they looked away."

The prosecution has alleged Jones had a sexual interest in the girls who were aged 12, 13 and 14 and he tried to get them all to get into his car.

Simon Phillips, prosecuting, said Jones had tried to abduct the schoolgirls - who were all strangers to him - and it was his intention to take them away and detain them.

"He wanted to commit some sexual offence," said Mr Phillips.

"At the very least he attempted to abduct them for an unknown purpose."

One of the 14-year-old girls had told the jury she was in a parked car with her friend at KFC when Jones angrily tried to get her into his car.

"I took off my belt - I was that scared," said the girl. "I tried to put my window up but the keys weren't in. I was really, really scared. I thought he was going to rape me or something."

The two girls had stayed in the car while one of their friends went to buy chicken with her grandfather.

The grandfather said in evidence that when he returned the two girls were upset and agitated.

"I told them to calm down and tell me what had happened," said the man.

"The one girl told me he was chatting them up, telling them they were good looking and how he was attracted to them."

He continued: "They were both scared but to their credit they took off the roller skates they were wearing so they were ready to run.

“As upset as they were they took the registration number of his car."

The man said that one of the girls had got it into her head that Jones would find them again so he immediately contacted police.

Jones told the jury in evidence he had not been fully co-operative with police after his arrest because he felt intimidated, adding that he just could not remember dates and specific times.

Jones, of Norwood Road, Brockmoor, has denied four charges of attempted abduction and also pleaded not guilty to four charges of attempted abduction with intent to commit a sexual offence.

The trial in front of Judge John Wait is continuing.