July 2013
A Hundon man has been found guilty of raping two schoolgirls more than a decade ago.
Paul Davey of Lower Road, had denied the six offences but on Wednesday (June 26) was convicted by a jury at Ipswich Crown Court.
The 63-year-old was also found guilty of four offences of indecent assault and one of attempting to procure a miscarriage.
After the jury returned the guilty verdicts, Mr Recorder Richard Atchley told Davey that he would be remanded in custody until he is sentenced on July 16.
Davey had denied all the offences and when interviewed told police that he had no knowledge of them.
He claimed that the girls had fabricated the allegations against him.
During the trial the jury heard that the two girls he targeted had been ‘vulnerable’.
Davey had groomed and manipulated both to allow him to engage in sexual activity with them at Sudbury.
Prosecutor Riel Karmy-Jones said Davey had raped the girls and taken pictures of one in a wedding dress and her underwear.
Miss Karmy-Jones said that after one girl became pregnant, Davey told her to drink a bottle of gin and handed her an item to induce a
miscarriage but the attempt failed.
Later Davey had used the item on the girl himself but again without success, claimed Miss Karmy-Jones.
The girl subsequently had an abortion and tests confirmed that Davey had been the father.
The court heard that the offences came to light when one of the girls went to the police in 2011 and the second girl came forward a year later.
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