A NIGHTCLUB boss pulled down his trousers in police interview to show officers his scarred buttocks, claiming he would not have taken his trousers off in front of women because he was embarrassed by his body.

Bushwackers and Browns at the Quay owner Darren Pinches turned red in the dock and began crying as a transcript of his police interview was read out at Warwick Crown Court yesterday.

The 52-year-old of Bromyard Road, Worcester denies administering cocaine with intent to stupefy or overpower a woman to enable him to engage in sexual activity with her and a sexual assault in a Bushwackers storeroom on January 1 last year.

He further denies possession of cocaine at his home on January 13 last year, supplying cocaine to a second woman between February 9 and 15, 2016 and offering to supply cocaine to a third between September 10 and 13, 2015.

DC Pete Ryland, one of the officers who interviewed Pinches at Worcester Police

Station after his arrest on January 13 last year, was called as a witness.

DC Ryland read out the questions asked by police of Pinches during his first interview conducted between 4.15pm and 6pm while Robin Shellard, junior counsel for the prosecution, read out the answers Pinches gave in response.

The jury heard he was initially arrested on suspicion of attempted rape, administering a substance with intent to commit a sexual offence and possession of a controlled drug.

Pinches described one of the complainants who accuses him of forcing cocaine over her mouth and sexually assaulting her as ‘a nice girl’ and said he had chatted with her that morning. But he denied anything sexual had taken place and told officers: “I have never done any drugs.”

Pinches said he had been ‘merry not drunk’ and denied giving the complainant and her friend cocaine.

DC Ryland then described how Pinches unfastened his jeans, pulling them down in interview in front of officers, his solicitor and a trainee solicitor. Pinches said: “My legs are scarred all terrible and I’m scarred real bad and I’m embarrassed of my body because of what I do to myself and the scratches and marks on me.”

The officer said: “He turned his bare backside to myself and my colleague. I did see a skin condition. I would describe it as a patch of reddening. It looked aggressive.”

Pinches also told officers he did not wear underwear which the defence have made reference to as contradicting evidence supplied by complainants in the case.

Pinches disputed that he had been punched by the first complainant as she left the Bushwackers storeroom following an alleged sexual assault.

He said cocaine had been found at Bushwackers and had been put through his home letter box along with £2,000 by the general manager, Mark Humpage.

When he was caught disposing of the cocaine down a sink and brought to the floor by officers, he said he had not wanted his children to find the drugs.

Pinches asked police in the interview if they had picked up the money during the search of his address at Berkley Gardens, Fernhill Heath that day but an officer said ‘I don’t believe so’ and another said he was not aware any money had been seized.

Pinches was asked why he had not reported the discovery of the drugs to police but Pinches said it was ‘a very small quantity’.

Because Pinches was speaking so quickly during the interview at one stage an officer asked him to ‘please slow it down so I can process what you’re saying’.

Further interviews were conducted with Pinches on May 11 and August 24, 2017. Pinches denied inviting the third complainant upstairs in Browns, saying her Coca-Cola was ready, spiking her drink, producing cocaine in front of her or propositioning her for sex.

He said at the time he was alleged to have given the second complainant cocaine Browns at the Quay where he is said to have kissed her was flooded, floods he described as ‘the worst in history.’

He said: “Clearly it weren’t open because it got flooded.” He told officers you would not be able to get in ‘unless you went there in waders’ and that the power, gas and water had been turned off.

However, an officer told Pinches this complainant had described walking through flood water.

Pinches also said it caused him concern that two of the women makings the allegations were ‘best friends,’ describing it as ‘a bit odd.’ An officer asked Pinches in interview: “Are you saying they got together and compared notes?” Pinches said: “They are best friends aren’t they?”

Pinches said he totally denied sexual activity had taken place in an apartment at Browns at the Quay.

The court also heard the date relating to one of the charges has been officially changed - from between September 3 and 5, 2015 to between September 10 and 13.

The prosecution case has now finished. The defence case is scheduled to begin today with Pinches in the witness box.