A pensioner has denied the repeated sexual abuse of a schoolgirl – saying she was telling "blatant lies" to a jury.Thomas Berry, aged 77, told a court he did not know why the teenager had made up things about her.He said he was shocked when police came to question him, which was the first he knew of the allegations.Berry admitted giving the schoolgirl money, but said it was because she asked him for cash two or three times a week.Prosecutors claim Berry had regularly given her...
