A FORMER Bala man has been jailed after being found guilty of historic child sex offences dating back to the 1980s.

Seventy-year-old Jack Davies, of Fengen Road, Plymouth, was jailed after being convicted of five charges of indecent assault and indecency with a child.

Mold Crown Court heard how the victim was aged under 11 at the time, but the assaults still affe­cted her today as a grown woman.

Davies had denied the charges, but was convicted by a jury at Mold Crown Court, sitting at Chester, last month.

On Monday, judge Rhys Rowlands jailed Davies for five and a half years.

Davies was also ordered to register with the police­ as a sex offender for life and a 10-year restraining order not to contact the victim was made.

The judge said that he took into account the def­endant’s age.

He said: “It is clear that your behaviour towards her had a profound and continuing effect on her over the years, and now as an adult.”

The victim had received counselling and was on anti-depressants and described being “robbed of her childhood” in a victim impact statement.

See the full story in this week’s Meirionnydd edition of the Cambrian News