A former swimming instructor has been warned he faces custody after he was convicted of child sex assaults some 20 years ago.
Roger Canton, of Tower View in Wrexham, 68, who also worked as a driving instructor, pleaded not guilty to three charges of indecent assault and a charge of indecency with a child.
It follows allegations that he sexually touched a girl now in her late 20s in a swimming pool when she was aged 10 or 11.
But he was convicted and was ordered to register with the police as a sex offender pending sentence in July.
Judge Niclas Parry, sitting at Mold Crown Court on Wednesday, granted him bail pending sentence, but warned him that he faced an inevitable prison sentence.
The jury was told that Canton had a previous conviction for a similar offence dating back to the late 1970s.
Prosecuting barrister Simon Parry said the offences occurred at the Plas Madoc swimming pool, where he said the victim was assaulted in a variety of ways in the changing rooms.
He also made her touch him when he was wearing Speedo trunks and told her not to tell anyone, Mr Parry explained.
As a child she complied, but went to the police last year and reported what he had done.
She had told a woman what had occurred when she was a teenager and that woman had made notes at the time, said Mr Parry.
A contemporaneous note had been made of what she had disclosed to her in 2001.
Canton said that the allegations were simply not true.
Jonathan Duffy, defending, told the jury that his client denied that anything of a sexual nature had ever occurred between the complainant and himself.
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