A man accused of abusing and exploiting a 75-year-old mentally impaired woman after moving into her home with another man denied he had done anything wrong last night.

The 45-year-old painter and decorator admitted he owed the frail senior $10,000 and had been banned from her house by Police but denied he had ever mistreated her or seen his older friend harm her in any way.

Serious allegations against the two men of physical and sexual abuse and financial exploitation of the elderly woman, who is understood to have the mental age of a child, are being investigated by the National Office for Seniors and the Physically Challenged and the Police.

Cabinet Minister Dale Butler, who has responsibility for seniors, told The Royal Gazette a protection order banning both men from her home had been obtained from a judge this week.

The younger man, whom this newspaper is not naming in order to protect the alleged victim's identity, spoke at length after being tracked down at the home he used to share with the other alleged abuser.

Answering the door bare-chested and wearing track pants, he told us he was ordered from the woman's property on Friday and that it was the second time Police had told him to leave.

He said he returned after the first order when the elderly woman and his male friend asked him to return to help them. "Everybody is saying this and that," he said. "There is nothing to talk about. Nothing at all. I was told by Police to leave the property so I left gratefully."

He said the other man acted as a "caretaker" for the woman, managing her finances and maintaining her home.

His retired friend, he said, asked him to move into an adjourning apartment owned by the senior to help with repair work. "There is nothing to defend," he insisted. "I work there; that's it."

Asked if he or his friend had ever physically hurt the woman, he shook his head. "The only thing that happened was that I got hit in my head by her and I sprayed bug spray.

"She gets angry and frustrated when she can't speak out. She gets very upset and she's strong." He added that the senior would make racial remarks to him but he never retaliated and had only shown her kindness. "No one is hitting her, she's just coming in with bruises," he said. "(The older man) was told that she had fallen in town and never mentioned anything to anybody."

He said he knew nothing about photographs of the senior naked and watching porn, which a source alleged had been found by social workers who visited her home. But he added: "The camera was found and it was looked at and whatever. It belonged to (the older man)."

He insisted he would have acted if "I knew something bad was happening to her, but I never saw him touch her".

The man said he believed his older friend had been allowed to stay at the woman's home by the authorities. "He was told to stay there by the people that came up to the place."

The younger man, who is a father, said he would work roughly four hours a day for the woman for $50-an-hour and was allowed to live rent-free in the adjourning apartment while he did it up.

He added that he had taken an advance of $10,000 from the senior in order to visit the Dominican Republic but would not now be able to complete the work on her home due to the ban. "I do have to pay that back," he said.

The man said he believed the claims of abuse were falsely made by a workman who was fired from the property.