![]() ![]() 'That there were occasions when he was serving balls at them in order to punish them for the way they had trained poorly. 'That they would be subjected to physical assault, particularly Nephe: he would take her out of sight if he was unhappy with her and kick and slap her. 'The best examples of the sorts of things they experienced were a daily torrent of verbal abuse, that they would be called 'motherf***er' and 'c***s' and 'fat, lazy c***s' by their father when he was dissatisfied with the way they were training. Monaei (left) and Nephe (right) were allegedly forced to run around tennis courts for hours Nephe said that went on for hours at a time. 'They both say that, on occasions, they were forced to run round and round the tennis courts. 'Each of them suggests that, perhaps with Monaei it was more verbal, causing her suffering by way of a constant stream of abuse, whereas with Nephe, he was more physical. 'He did that on the Crown's case by way of physical assaults and mental abuse of those girls, relentlessly over a period of years. 'John De'Viana behaved in a way that went so far as child cruelty as the law defines it, that is he assaulted or ill-treated his children over time so as that the cumulative effect of the was likely to cause them unnecessary suffering or injury to health. 'It went beyond the mother of the Murray brothers, who was a demanding parent and got them to the very highest level in tennis. 'However, it is the Crown's case that John De'Viana's behaviour went beyond that. Any of us who are parents, we all do the same: "no TV until you do your homework," for example. 'It is right to say that both girls had some success as junior players. ![]() 'We all know, or have been ourselves, pushy parents, and where there is a child who shows talent then it is not surprising or wrong that their parents should encourage them, discipline them and help them make the very best of that talent. 'In itself, there is nothing wrong with that. 'He subjected them to a tough, rigorous and demanding training schedule of stretching, physical exercise and technical tennis training,' Mr Povall added. When Nephe was given a new tennis bag as part of a sponsorship deal her father said she 'had not earned that' and was forced to carry her kit in a black bin bag to 'humiliate' her, the court heard.ĭe'Viana allegedly called the girls, when they were 'as young as nine or ten,' 'motherf***ers' and 'fat, lazy c***s' if he felt they were not training hard enough. The court heard the girls were allegedly forced to run around tennis courts for hours on end. Shortly afterwards, despite their success, both daughters gave up tennis. The alleged abuse ended when De'Viana split with the girls' mother in 2011. Her sister Nephe, now 19, then described one alleged incident in which De'Viana took her off court behind a curtain and punched and kicked her with his hand over her mouth to stop her screaming. Monaei De'Viana, now 21, claims her father spat at her as she was driven back from a tennis tournament 'because he considered she had not performed as she had ought to.' ![]() The girls were made to practice from 5.30am until they went to bed and he would stop them having meals if he thought they were not trying hard enough, Snaresbrook Crown Court heard. John De'Viana, 55, took the girls out of school to enforce gruelling all-day training regimes on them, it was said. John De'Viana, of Ilford, Essex, denies to two counts of cruelty to a person aged under 16Ī tennis coach kicked, starved and spat at his young daughters and called them 'fat, lazy c***s' in his obsessive drive to make them Wimbledon champions, a court heard. ![]()
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