COMMENT

A predatory paedophile who went from job to job in care homes abusing vulnerable youngsters has been jailed for ten years.

Care worker Brian Dailey, 70, physically assaulted and sexually molested children he was supposed to be looking after for more than a decade.

A judge told him yesterday: “You have been convicted of five charges which involve the persistent, calculated, manipulative and predatory sexual abuse of two young boys and one teenage girl in relation to all of whom you were in a clear position of trust.”

Lord Armstrong said that the abuse inflicted on the boys included acts that would now be classified as rape, and told the former councillor that he had callously robbed victims of their childhood.

The judge said that he took into account both that the offences were historical in nature and Dailey’s current age, but added: “Nevertheless these crimes of which you have been convicted are disturbing.”

Police were first alerted to Dailey’s actions 25 years

“These crimes of which you have been convicted are disturbing”

LORD ARMSTRONG