UNITED KINGDOM
London Evening Standard
ROBIN DE PEYER
Published: 15 November 2013
A school caretaker who preyed on two girls aged six and seven at holiday camps was today jailed for 12 years.
John Lyon, 40, admitted sexual assault by penetration on a seven-year-old victim, as well as another sexual assault of a six-year-old.
Lyon, of Stanstead Abbotts, Hertfordshire, targeted the seven-year-old during a summer camp in north London in July last year. Police were called after the traumatised victim told her mother how she was taken to a bathroom at the camp and assaulted.
Detectives investigating the case then identified a second victim, aged just six, who was assaulted in similar circumstances during the Easter holidays months earlier.
Lyon was arrested just days after the second assault. He was charged in January and pleaded guilty to the offences in September, after what police described as a “complicated and protracted enquiry”.
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