February 2012
Jehovah’s Witness guilty of indecent assault on boy
A FORMER school bus driver from Penpedairheol has been convicted of indecently assaulting a boy a decade ago.
David Evans, 46, a practising Jehovah’s Witness, was found guilty following two trials at Cardiff Crown Court.
At his first trial last summer, a jury failed to agree on verdicts.
Evans, of Gelliron, Penpedairheol, denied the allegations made by a man, now aged in his 20s.
But a second jury convicted him of five charges and he will face sentence next month.
At his first trial, his accuser revealed that he had not told his parents about what happened until last year.
He said he spoke out after spotting Evans in a car with a small boy.
“If the same thing happened to somebody else, I couldn’t have lived with myself,” he told the court, which heard that Evans was called to a meeting of the elders of his church in Aberbargoed after the allegations were made. He told them the accusations were untrue.
