UNITED KINGDOM
The Packet
Two men from Falmouth have been convicted of child abuse following a trial involving paganism and witchcraft.
Peter Petrauske, 72, who at the time of his arrest last December was living at The Beacon, was convicted unanimously by a jury at Truro Crown Court of rape between January 1988 and January 1991 and of aiding and abetting attempted rape by person unknown between November 1982 and November 1985.
He was acquitted of one charge of indecent assault between January 1988 and January 1991.
Sixty-nine-year-old Jack Kemp, of Grenville Road, was convicted unanimously of one indecent assault between November 1982 and November 1984.
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