A TEENAGE soldier told a court he returned to a Worcester hotel room after a former top football official had offered him money for sex act to either call the police or “beat him up”.

The boy, who was 16 at the time, said he and two friends had been offered £1,600 by Steven Dorr, a former Premier League assistant referee, to spend an hour with him on Valentine’s Day last year.

Dorr, aged 41, of Bridge Street, Worcester, denies breaching a sexual offences prevention order banning him from contact with children under 17.

It was imposed in January 2009 when he was given a three-year community order after admitting 10 counts of downloading child pornography.

The soldier told a jury at Worcester Crown Court by videolink that he had been with his two friends, also soldiers, at a house party when one of them got a text invitation from Dorr, whom he had met before. Dorr booked a room at the Fownes Hotel in City Walls Road where he told the boys he would give them £50 up front and £100 after they had taken part in a sex act with him.

Dorr took off his trousers and they took off theirs. But the teenager said they then decided to grab the money and leave.

Two of them ran downstairs to the reception in their boxer shorts, carrying their jeans.

They were joined by their friend and returned to the party they had left earlier.

“We only went with him to the hotel room for a laugh,” the teenager said. “We were young and immature.”

At the party, they got another text from Dorr offering them £1,600 to go back to the hotel for an hour. Instead, they went to visit another friend, who was with two others.

They recognised Dorr’s name from his time as a football referee and knew that he had been convicted of child porn offences.

Five of them went back to the hotel in the early hours with the intention of either calling the police or “beating him up” when they realised he was a paedophile, he said, but Dorr refused to let them into the room. They kept watch and saw Dorr leave through a fire exit.

They caught up with him in the street, knocked him to the ground and called the police.

PC Natasha Kennett told the court she interviewed Dorr at the scene and he told her he thought the boys were “aged 16 or 17”.

He said he had given them £50 as a gift but not in payment for sex. He had fallen asleep when they left and when he heard banging on his door, he thought he was in danger.

It is also alleged Dorr went to South Africa for the World Cup last year and a two-year-old was in the group, even though he did not have permission to be in the company of a child.

A police officer responsible for managing sex offenders, Annie Hamer, told the court they had made checks because of a fear of child sex tourism at the World Cup.

Dorr had notified her before when he had travelled abroad to watch England games but on this occasion he did not tell her about the child, she said.

The trial continues.