A woman who claims Chris Langham sexually abused her has told a court he also admitted looking at images of children being assaulted.

The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, says the actor had sex with her when she was 14.

She told Maidstone Crown Court on Tuesday that he also told her of his interest in pictures of sexual abuse on children.

Thick of It star Langham, from Kent, denies 10 counts of indecent assault and two counts of buggery between January 1996 and April 2000. He also denies 15 offences of making indecent images of children on computers between September and November 2005.

The woman said Langham had told her he downloaded the images but was most interested in looking at the adults.

She told the court: "He said he was not looking at the children but looking at the people who were hurting them, and looking into their eyes because it made him feel like a better man."

He also told her he watched torture pictures, she said. "He said the press only focused on the child pornography because that was the worst of it. But he was looking at images of people having their heads and bodies being chopped off as well."

The woman, now in her 20s, previously alleged that Langham took her to a hotel and had sex with her on a string of occasions.

However, his defence claims he only had sex with her when she was 18. And the actor will argue he downloaded the pictures for research on a television programme he was making.