A MAN is not giving evidence in his trial after pleading guilty to some of the 32 charges he was facing.

Junior Bryan is accused of raping, beating and supplying drugs to young girls and women whilst living off some of their earnings from prostitution.

Yesterday, the 63-year-old pleaded guilty to living off the earnings of one of his alleged victims between September 1999 and November 2002 and two charges of supplying drugs to two women.

He still faces another 29 charges relating to eight different people throughout a two-decade period.

Teesside Crown Court heard Bryan, of Marton Road, Middlesbrough, is accused of forcing a number of teenagers and young women into prostitution after getting them addicted to drugs.

Jurors had heard from all the alleged victims how he had abused them sometime between 1993 and 2013.

The catalogue of charges allegedly happened while the defendant was living in Darlington, Middlesbrough, Leeds and London.

Richard Bennett, prosecuting, is expected to deliver his closing speech to the jury on Monday before defence barrister, Jason Pitter QC, concludes Bryan’s evidence.

Earlier in the trial, jurors heard how Bryan had forced one woman to dig her own grave using her hands to scrape away the soil whilst attacking down a secluded lane near to a Darlington golf course and on another occasion he is alleged to have battered her legs and feet with a hammer.

Another of the woman told how he forced to work as a prostitute to pay for the drugs that he was giving her.

In his opening, Mr Bennett said: "Unsurprisingly, the prosecution says, many of these women have been badly damaged by that experience.

"They remain vulnerable as you will be able to see when they give evidence over the course of the next few weeks."

The trial continues.