Locations
Artiss Close, Bildeston, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP7
Description
A man was jailed yesterday (Tuesday 18 March) for 19 years in connection with non-recent rape and sexual offences.
Barrie Clarke, aged 66, was brought to justice after his offending in North Hertfordshire from the late 1980s and early 1990s was exposed to police in 2023.
Clarke, of Artiss Close in Bildeston, Suffolk, was convicted on 15 January this year following a seven-day trial at Cambridge Crown Court.
The jury found him guilty of rape and eight counts of indecent assault against one victim, who was as young as eight at the time.
He was also convicted of indecently assaulting a second girl under the age of 15. He denied all the offences.