A 78-year-old, who out of the blue wrote a letter of confession to police with a list of names of victims of his sexual abuse, has been jailed for a year.

Caernarfon Crown Court heard that one of those on the list was a boy abused by Frank Jones of Clynnog Fawr over 30 years ago.

Judge Philip Harris-Jenkins told the pensioner he came before him “in unusual circumstances”.

In 1989, Jones had been jailed for two years for indecent assaults on another victim.

He hadn’t re-offended since and was now unwell.

But the judge told Jones: ”Despite your age and ill-health I have come to the conclusion, given the offence, this is an offence where only an immediate custodial sentence will meet the crime you committed against that boy.”

Jones, of Llwyn-y-Ne, admitted gross indecency.

Judge Harris-Jenkins told him that the abuse had affected the boy as he grew up and left him with “psychological scars”.

It was a serious offence.

See the full story in this week’s Arfon/Dwyfor edition of the Cambrian News