Phillip Schofield says ‘I no longer have a brother’ after sibling Timothy found guilty of sexual abuse | UK News

The brother of This Morning presenter Phillip Schofield has been discovered responsible of sexually abusing a teenage boy over a three-year interval.

Timothy Schofield was charged with 11 sexual offences involving a toddler between October 2016 and October 2019.

Jurors at Exeter Crown Courtroom returned majority verdicts on Monday as they discovered the 54-year-old responsible of all counts after greater than five-and-a-half hours of deliberations.

Following the verdicts, Phillip Schofield branded his brother’s crimes “despicable” and mentioned: “So far as I’m involved, I not have a brother.”

“My overwhelming concern is and has all the time been for the wellbeing of the sufferer and his household,” the TV star mentioned.

“I hope that their privateness will now be revered.

“If any crime had ever been confessed to me by my brother, I’d have acted instantly to guard the sufferer and their household.

“These are despicable crimes, and I welcome the responsible verdicts.”

Timothy Schofield denied performing intercourse acts on {the teenager}, however instructed the jury he watched porn with the boy they usually had masturbated whereas sitting aside.

He insisted the boy was over 16 on the time however admitted trying to find phrases on a authorized pornography web site together with “younger boy teen intercourse” and “homosexual teen torrents”.

He instructed the court docket he believed this is able to return outcomes displaying males aged between 18 and their early 20s.

The civilian police employee, from Bathtub, testified that he instructed his brother Phillip in September 2021 that he and the complainant had watched pornography collectively.

The TV star offered a written assertion to the trial, which mentioned Timothy “made it sound like a one-off” and that he had instructed him “it mustn’t ever occur once more”.

Phillip Schofield described how his brother had phoned him in an agitated and upset state and he invited his sibling to drive to his house in London.

The court docket heard they spent a number of hours speaking, together with consuming a meal, earlier than he went to do the washing-up.

He mentioned his brother instructed him “you will hate me for what I’m about to say” however the presenter assured him there was nothing he may say that may do this.

Phillip Schofield mentioned within the assertion: “Then he mentioned that he and [the boy] had time collectively and that final yr they’d watched porn… and [masturbated]”.

“I turned and mentioned: ‘What did you simply say?’ He mentioned it was final yr and we have been alone collectively. Tim mentioned it was simply this as soon as. I instructed him it ought to by no means occur once more. He then began to inform me about [the boy’s] physique.

“I mentioned: ‘F***, cease.’ I shouted at Tim that he needed to cease. I did not need to know any of the small print however he made it sound like a one-off.

“I mentioned: ‘I do not need you to inform me any extra.’ I mentioned: ‘You have to cease, simply by no means do it once more. Regardless how that occurred, it mustn’t ever occur once more’.”

The boy, who alleged the offending began when he was 13, instructed the jury he felt “emotionally blackmailed” by Schofield and “pressured” to take part in sexual exercise.

He mentioned: “I felt that emotionally there was no escape from what we needed to do and I felt that there was an amazing quantity of stress and expectation for me to fulfil what was being requested and needed.”

Timothy Schofield denied all the fees in opposition to him – three counts of inflicting a toddler to look at sexual exercise, three of partaking in sexual exercise within the presence of a kid, three of inflicting a toddler to interact in sexual exercise, and two of sexual exercise with a toddler.

Choose Mrs Justice Cutts remanded him in custody forward of sentencing at Bristol Crown Courtroom on 19 Might.