A MARRIED woman denounced as "false" an allegation she took part in a three-in-a-bed session with her lover and a schoolgirl.

Susan Morris told Worcester Crown Court that during her affair with Christopher Howley he had brought up the sexual fantasy in conversation.

But he never suggested including her and if he had done, she would have refused.

Morris ended her two-year romance with Howley in 1993 but kept it secret from her husband Paul until 2001 after a phone call to their home by a woman who insisted she had been the abuse victim 10 years ago at a house in Kidderminster.

Morris, aged 47, of Dovedale Avenue, Willenhall, denies aiding and abetting Howley to commit indecent assault.

She has been cleared on the direction of the judge of aiding and abetting rape.

Howley, aged 48, formerly of Leawood Grove, Kidderminster, and now living in Burton Latimer, Northamptonshire. denies raping girls aged 12 and 14.

He also pleads not guilty to indecent assault, indecency with a child, taking indecent photographs and adminstering a drug with intent to commit indecent assault.

Giving evidence on day 12 of the trial, Morris told how she married at 19 but began an affair with Howley, her former boss, in 1992 after the romance "went a little" from her marriage.

'Infatuation'

"It was infatuation and I enjoyed the attention," she said. She never formed any intention to leave her husband.

She and Howley booked into hotels to have sex but they never had sex at the Kidderminster house, she maintained.

When her romance was revealed, she "wanted to end it all" and took an overdose in a failed suicide bid.

She read out her suicide note to the jury in which she wrote: "I have lived with guilt for so long and at last it's caught up with me. Don't let that bastard Howley get away with anything."

Prosecutor Malcolm Parkes claims the note was a confession she had taken part in the sexual abuse of a child.

But Morris said it was a note of apology to her husband for the guilt she carried about her affair.

Morris said she first learnt of the three-in-a-bed sex romp allegation when interviewed by police last year.

Asked by her counsel Joseph Giret if it was true, she replied: "It is false. There is absolutely no truth in it at all."

The trial continues.