A Greenwich mum has told a court how an athletics coach confessed his love for her then 14-year-old daughter.

Former supply teacher Cyril Carter, 68, is accused of molesting a child under the age of 13-years-old and sexually assaulting another.

The mother of one of the girls told the Woolwich Crown Court that when she first reported coach Carter’s confession in 1984, two staff members at the school closed ranks.

“[Carter] said he was in love with my daughter,” the victim’s mother told the judge, “He said so long as my wife has 2.4 children and something about a car and a house, he said she would be happy.”

“He said ‘I love my wife but I’m in love with [your daughter]’.”

“I was shocked by that, I couldn’t believe it.”

She added: “[After I had gone to the school] I felt like I was the person in the wrong for complaining.

“It was inappropriate, he was her teacher.

“He’s someone she should’ve been able to trust.

“No one would listen.”

“[My daughter] didn’t continue with athletics.

“I never sat her down and asked her [what happened].

“We never had those sort of discussions.”

The ex-coach for some of Britain’s iconic Olympic superstars in the 70s and 80s is alleged to have assaulted the 14-year-old in a room off the main sport’s hall in Crystal Palace Park, pinned her down to the ground and kissed her in Bexleyheath’s Danson Park and forced her to come into his bedroom at his home in Queenscroft Road, Eltham.

Accusations were put to Carter by another of his alleged victims, who claims that for three years Carter sexually assaulted her beginning when she was just 13 years old.

Carter is alleged to have assaulted the girl in a training pool in Crystal Palace, at his home in Queenscroft Road, Eltham, and also in his car. 

As a coach, Carter worked with Olympic heavy weights like swimmer Sharron Davies, judo Olympian Neil Adams and judo champ Brian Jacks, who achieved national fame on the BBC programme Superstars in 1979 and 1980.

Carter has also written books on the discus with British strongman Pete Tancred and judo techniques with Neil Adams.

Carter was arrested at Heathrow airport on June 28, 2014, after returning from Thailand after charges were made against him by one of his alleged victims.

He was later arrested in Wrexham, Wales in October 2015 after another of his alleged victims came forward.

The ex-coach has been charged with six counts of indecent assault and five counts of gross indecency with a child under the age of 13-years-old.

He has pleaded not guilty to all counts.

The case continues.