A former office manager accused of a string of sex attacks on an employee “lost it” and “got aggressive” with the much younger man after going to a guest house with him, it was claimed in court yesterday.Crown counsel Nicole Smith put it to 59-year-old Mr Y that on June 11, 2009, the date of the last alleged assault, he was determined to have his way with Mr X, who had recently turned 20.During a tense exchange between prosecutor and defendant, Ms Smith suggested to Mr Y that he pushed the younger man onto a bed in a room of the guest house and attacked him.“You dropped to your knees,” she alleged during cross-examination. “This was one occasion where you weren’t going to let this little boy get away from you.”The defendant vehemently denied the charge, telling her: “You can say what you like but that’s not correct.”He insisted he did not attend the guest house with the alleged victim on that date, though did go there with him on a different day to check the size of a room, and did not unbuckle Mr X’s belt or grope his genitals.Ms Smith said: “You lost it. You got aggressive with this child, this young man.”Mr Y said: “No. He would never be able to tell you that.”The prosecutor alleged: “You wanted to have your way with him, didn’t you?”Mr Y replied: “Ms Smith, you are wrong.”The prosecutor suggested previous assaults had taken place in Mr Y’s office or Mr X’s accommodation but that on June 11 “you were in a neutral location” and that “sort of changed the game a bit”.Mr Y said: “I don’t know what game you are talking about.”Ms Smith told him: “You thought that this was the place where he wouldn’t resist.”Mr Y replied: “No, I’m sorry, you are incorrect.”Earlier, he told the court: “I’m not an aggressive person. I never manhandled Mr [X] or anyone else.”Mr Y is on trial at Magistrates’ Court accused of eight counts of sexual assault between February 15 and June 11, 2009, all of which he denies. Neither he nor his accuser, now aged 22, can be named for legal reasons.Yesterday’s cross-examination saw Ms Smith question the defendant about a series of different dates during that period, with Mr Y denying that he ever attacked Mr X.He told the court he was fond of the employee and agreed he “took a liking to him”.He said he and other colleagues aimed to support Mr X, who was recently out of prison and homeless when he took the office job, and help him move forward.The case continues tomorrow.