A Derbyshire pensioner, convicted of abusing a young boy four decades ago, has been told he will probably be locked-up after undergoing heart bypass surgery.
Graham Saunders, 78, of Town Lane, Charlesworth, Glossop began preying on the youngster in the mid-seventies when the boy was approximately eleven or twelve years-old.
He was unanimously convicted by a Kingston-upon-Thames Crown Court jury of three counts of indecent assault and two counts of indecency with a child and will be sentenced on September 15.
The court heard Saunders was previously an employee of Manchester Polytechnic and some of the abuse occurred during trips to the Lake District.
Judge Timothy Lamb QC told him: “A custodial sentence is almost certain to follow these convictions.
“I have information that you are to undergo major surgery that will keep you in hospital for several weeks.
“I want extensive enquiries about your conduct in 1971 and test how straight you have been in this court.
“I will allow time for the operation and period of convalescence.
“There will follow a probable custodial sentence,” added the judge, who ordered Saunders to sign the sex offenders register.
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I know this man. I think there will be more boys he abused. He was always bringing them up to his caravan in Cumbria. I was only a child myself. Sickening.
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