UNITED KINGDOM
Tewkesbury Admag
THE disgraced former leader of Worcestershire County Council has been jailed for four years for indecent assaults on an underage girl and a sex attack on a vulnerable woman.
Dr George Lord was sentenced to four years in prison when he appeared at Birmingham Crown Court on Tuesday. Lord had admitted three indecent assaults on a girl aged 14 and 15 in the late 1970s – when he was a church minister – and had already been found guilty after a trial in January of a sex attack on a 19-yearold woman at County Hall, Worcester, in October 2010.
Judge Nigel Godsmark, describing the assaults in the 1970s, spoke directly to the grim-faced 79-year-old, telling him he had groomed the youngster for his sexual self-gratification.
He said: “As a minister, you should have been her protector, not her abuser.”
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