A MUM who claims she was raped as a teenager by sex offender Orville Vaughan has denied she is making it all up.

The 46-year-old broke down in tears in the witness box as she was being questioned about what she said took place almost 30 years ago.

And she said she only came forward after taking strength from other victims and because she had daughters who were growing up.

The woman claimed 56-year-old Vaughan, who she knew by the nickname Bov and the surname Thompson, raped her in the Brunel car park in 1986 or 1987. He is currently behind bars for four rapes.

The defendant, now 56, is also said to have had sex with a 14-year-old girl in the mid 1990s.

A jury of seven women and five men were told that the two women came forward after reading about the previous cases

Philip Warren, prosecuting, said after a trial in 2012 he was found guilty of two rapes in the 1980s and sent to prison.

He was back before the court the following year where he admitted two similar offences from the same period and got more jail time.

"Since then there have come to light two more women, girls back when we were talking about, who say that he raped them back in those days," said Mr Warren.

Under cross examination from David Maunder she insisted that she was telling the truth about the incident.

He put to her that she never really knew his client, who she said she talked to at the Time Out arcade where House of Fraser now stands in the months before the incident.

And he also suggested that her account, of being raped against railings at the top of the stairwell, bore striking similarities to that of one of the first victims.

He put to her she knew the other woman and asked if she knew whether she made any money from selling her story or from the criminal injuries compensation authority.

She said while she was friendly with her she did not know if she got any money as a result of the case.

And after she learned a second pair of women came forward, and he admitted raping them, she decided she had to say something about what happened to her.

Earlier the jury heard her tell how she made a complaint to the police because the pain of what had happened to her was driving her mad.

She said: "When I saw others had done it I thought 'fair play, he is paying the price for what he has done to others'. I thought 'crack on'.

"Then seeing that others had come forward since the original case. I thought 'Crikey, this is a bit much. There is more women than me'.

"Then again my life has changed a lot over the last couple of years. Generally a lot of struggle with the kids, it has made me stronger, and I have got daughters.

"I almost felt if I don't do this it is almost condoning, agreeing with things that happened in the past.

"And heaven forbid anything ever happened to my daughters. They are growing up a bit and it almost felt it needed to be done.

"Also, it is driving me mad. The box is open and I don't know why that memory box is open and it is driving me insane that being there."

She also told the court she did not know another woman, now aged 36, who claims she was raped by Vaughan when she was 13, in the mid '90s.

Vaughan, formerly of Allington Road, Penhill, denies two counts of rape. The case continues.