November 2003
Man jailed for sex abuse of boy
A 60-year-old man from Kenilworth has been jailed for six years after pleading guilty to eight charges of sexually abusing a young boy.
Brian Bevan, of Guy Road, assaulted the boy – now in his 20s – over a number of years during the 1980s.
At Warwick Crown Court, Bevan also admitted 10 charges of making indecent images of children and one of possessing indecent images. He has been ordered to register as a sex offender for life.
John Butterfield, prosecuting, said computer equipment was seized from Bevan’s home in June, and child pornography images discovered on the hard drive and floppy disks.
Following Bevan’s arrest, the man in his 20s contacted police, telling officers he had been sexually abused by him for several years from when he was nine.
Mr Butterfield said Bevan was friends with the boy’s parents and the first incident was at a wedding in the mid-1980s.
He said: “The defendant then took opportunities, when he happened to be alone with the boy, to sexually abuse him.”
The abuse stopped when the boy was 15 but he said it left him depressed and suicidal, and he once tried to kill himself.
In police questioning, Bevan said the offences were a long time in the past, he had forgotten them, but accepted they had happened.
Philip Brown, defending, said Bevan lived with his 92-year-old mother, hated himself for what he had done, and, had it not been for his mother, would have killed himself.
Judge Richard Cole said he accepted Bevan’s mother would suffer through his imprisonment but he had to be jailed.
