Locations
Brook Road, Bath, Somerset, BA2
Description
A paedophile who forced a toilet door open to sexually assault a 13-year-old boy more than 30 years ago has been jailed for four and a half years.
Sick Ronald Webb, of Bath, befriended children in Swindon in the 1980s by forming a football team called Old Town United, which resulted in a number of them going back to his house in Winifred Street one lunchtime.
That day the victim, who is now in his 40s, went to use the bathroom when the now 76-year-old forced his way in and sexually assaulted him.
A court heard Webb, of Brook Road, Bath, also showed the children pornography.
He was sent to prison on Friday (July 26) after being found guilty of attempted buggery following a three-day trial earlier this month, according to Wiltshire Police.
The victim had reported the incident to police in 2017 after carrying the secret for three decades.
Webb was also given a 10-year restraining order preventing him from contacting the victim.
Detective Sergeant Lawrence Billi, from Wiltshire Police, welcomed the jail sentence and said he hoped it showed justice could be served, even when offences were committed many years ago.
He said: "We know that very often in cases of childhood sexual abuse, victims do not feel able to talk about what happened to them, and can spend many years, even a whole lifetime, keeping their pain and trauma to themselves.
"I hope this case shows that if people do feel able to come forward and speak to police, that we will take them seriously and will do everything we can to support them and bring offenders to justice."