A Helensburgh grandfather accused of a campaign of sexual abuse involving two young girls and two women claims his alleged victims ganged up on Facebook to target him.

George Murray, 60, was giving evidence at the High Court in Glasgow on the third day of his trial on Wednesday, June 24.

He is accused of sexually abusing one girl on several occasions between the ages of eight to 15 at his home in Helensburgh.

He is also accused of interfering with a third girl aged 10 and 11 and is further alleged to have sexually assaulted two women by rubbing their private parts on top of their clothes.

All the offences are said to have taken place at his home between 2002 and 2008.

Giving evidence, Murray, a janitor for the Ministry of Defence working in Churchill, denied all the charges against him.

His lawyer, Liam Ewing, asked him: “Is there any truth in any of the allegations that are made against you?”.

Murray replied: “No.” The married grandfather added: “The four of them got together on Facebook and made all this up.” Another explanation he gave for one of the his young alleged victim’s abuse claims was ‘we cut her off for money’ while he said police in Clydebank told him the other young girl ‘wasn’t right in the head’.

He told the court one of his adult alleged victims was ‘jealous’ her husband gets on better with him than her while he claimed the other alleged victim had made up the charges as part of a custody battle.

Murray when he heard the allegations against him he felt ‘gutted and sick’.

He later said the charges made him feel ‘drained’ and became emotional.

Advocate Depute Kath Harper asked him: “You say all of these complainers are simply making it all up and you’ve never touched a single one?” Murray replied: “100 per cent.” The court also heard agreed evidence that one of the adult alleged victims had gone to her doctor in Helensburgh to say Murray had sexually assaulted her and she was having flashbacks and not eating or sleeping.

Murray was previously accused of rape but those parts of the charges were dropped by the Crown.

The trial, before temporary judge Lord Ritchie QC, continues.