A Roman Catholic priest accused of sex crimes against young boys has told a jury that one of his accusers had "got the wrong man".

Father Michael Ingram told a jury at Leicester Crown Court this week that he believed one of the youngsters had been sexually abused but was mistaken about the identity of his attacker.

Ingram, 68, denies seven sex offences against six boys, aged nine to 13, when he was priest at Leicester's Holy Cross Priory Church in the 1970s.

The Dominican priest is said to have abused two underprivileged brothers during a camping trip on the Isle of Wight in the 1970s.

One of them claimed he was subjected to a serious sexual assault on the trip, but Ingram told the court: "It's quite probably true that he was sexually abused - but he's mistaken. He's put two events together - the camp I attended and another camping trip."

The trial continues.

This story was first published in the Leicester Mercury