'Worst nightmare': Robert Hughes sex assaults trial begins

By Paul Bibby
Updated February 25 2014 - 3:18pm, first published 3:19am
On trial: Robert Hughes leaves court on Monday after a jury heard about alleged sexual and indecent assaults on several girls.
On trial: Robert Hughes leaves court on Monday after a jury heard about alleged sexual and indecent assaults on several girls.
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On trial: Robert Hughes leaves court on Monday after a jury heard about alleged sexual and indecent assaults on several girls. Photo: Tamara Dean
On trial: Robert Hughes leaves court on Monday after a jury heard about alleged sexual and indecent assaults on several girls. Photo: Tamara Dean

Being tried for sexually and indecently assaulting young girls is the ''worst nightmare'' of television star Robert Hughes, a man who was once ''as popular as the current prime minister of the day'', his lawyer has told a Sydney court.

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