The retired police superintendent carried out four indecent assaults against two teenagers in the 1980s
Retired police superintendent Gordon Anglesea has been convicted of historic allegations of child sex abuse.
The man who is the 1990s received a third of a million in libel damages because he said he was wrongly branded a child abuser was today found to be just that.
An 11-strong jury at Mold Crown Court took some 10 hours to reach their verdicts after a six-week trial.
Anglesea, 79, of Old Colwyn, was convicted of indecently assaulting one man when he was a boy at a house in Mold in the 1980s
He was cleared of carrying out a more serious sexual assault against another boy but convicted of an alternative charge of indecent assault.
He was also found guilty of carrying out two indecent assaults on the boy between 1982 and 1987, when he was an inspector running an Home Office attendance centre based at St Joseph’s School, Wrexham.
Judge Geraint Walters bailed Anglesea but warned him he was facing a custodial sentence.
Judge Walters said: “You know yourself already that there can only be one sentence and that will be a prison sentence.”
Anglesea frowned in the dock as the forewoman of the 11-strong jury returned the verdicts.
The verdicts mean that the jury were sure that Anglesea - who the prosecution alleged had links to convicted paedophiles - sexually abused two boys back to the 1980s.
The men were then aged 14 or 15 and are now in their 40s.
One of them says he was “handed around like a handbag” by convicted paedophile John Allen, who is now serving a life sentence, and other men, one of whom was Anglesea.
The six-week trial heard how one of the boys was taken to a house in Mold and was made to perform a sex act on Anglesea who then
threatened him, called him scum and told him he would “never see his family again” if he told anyone about it.
Anglesea abused another boy at the centre when he was showering alone.
The retired police chief of Gwynant, Old Colwyn, denied all charges and said the allegations were lies and inventions on the part of the prosecution witnesses.
He claimed the allegations were part of a conspiracy against him after he was falsely named in the press as a child abuser in the early 1990s.
Tina Griffiths, QC, defending, claimed that the allegations were rubbish and should never have been brought to court.
Eleanor Laws, QC, prosecuting, said that the defendant felt he had the power to do it and took advantage of young boys by sexually abusing them.
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