Court is told of ex-dj’s sex talk about ‘schoolgirl’
MARK Page made Skype calls to a Filipino woman and paid her to perform sex acts online, before asking her to find him a schoolgirl, a court heard.
At Teesside Crown Court on Friday, prosecutor Jo Kidd read out a dialogue from an online Skype chat he is accused of having with a Filipino prostitute.
Using the alias “Pete TV”, Page is accused of messaging a naked woman and paid her to perform a sex act in 2016.
Ms Kidd put it to Page that he then messaged the woman: “I always wanted to try schoolgirl”.
When the Filipino woman “Lovely Z **** ” suggests there’s a 15-year-old available, Page allegedly replied: “Girls 12 can do it ok”.
Ms Kidd told Teesside Crown Court that Page went on to discuss his forthcoming stay in the Philippines in October 2016, saying “Where is it safe for us all to meet babe, hotel might ask questions. Also needs to be safe place for me”.
Mark Page, 62, of Snowdrop Close in Stockton, denies five counts of arranging the commission of a child sex offence.
In an exchange during Friday’s hearing, Page repeatedly raised the fact that he no longer has access to his records and paperwork, after the police raided his former home in Ingleby Barwick in 2020.
Page told the court that he had requested disclosure of various emails from Cleveland Police but had received nothing.
The former Radio 1 DJ told the court that he must have been hacked, as he wasn’t the “Pete TV” who made that Skype call.
Page says that all of his employees at Garrison FM had access to the Hotmail account linked to the Skype account that was used to speak to “Lovelyz **** ” and someone else must have made that call.
Ms Kidd asked Page if he was saying that someone hacked his email account; knew his username “Pancho” on the Filipino Cupid dating site he used to meet women and was able to get into his Western Union account to transfer money; as well as gaining access to his Skype account.
Page said: “It’s apparent I’ve had a number of items hacked here.”
He claimed someone had set up a Facebook account pretending to be him and a fake Twitter account had been created in his name.
He repeatedly said that he “didn’t recognise” transactions made from his Western Union account and brought evidence of emails he sent to the money transfer company over five years ago, complaining about problems with his account.
The trial continues.