UNITED KINGDOM
Bristol Post
IAN Ball was an accomplished musician who gave recitals at Bristol Cathedral. But behind the scenes the organist sexually abused a young boy, even kissing and embracing him in the cathedral’s loft, a court heard.
When the Jimmy Savile inquiry prompted the victim, now an adult, to complain to police, Ball was found to have 84 indecent photographs of girls aged between ten and 13 on his computer when it was searched.
Ball, 46, formerly of Bristol but now living in Worcester, pleaded guilty to four indecent assaults on a boy aged 14. He also pleaded guilty to seven charges of downloading indecent photographs of children.
Jailing him for two-and-a-half years yesterday, Judge Michael Roach told him: “What you did not only blighted the remainder of his adolescent years but it led to a blight of his adult years too.”
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