'Predatory paedophile' is jailed

Judge Pitts said Larcombe had been caught on CCTV targeting boys.

A man who sexually assaulted two teenage boys on a train has been given a two-and-a-half year jail sentence.

Stephen Larcombe from Rochester in Kent groped the boys, aged 15 and 16, on the Tunbridge Wells to Tonbridge train, Southwark Crown Court heard.

Larcombe, a 45-year-old jeweller, committed the offences on two separate occasions in January and May of 2007.

Jailing Larcombe, Judge Anthony Pitts said: "You were acting as a predatory paedophile."

'Appalling experience'

Larcombe, a divorced father of one, had been caught on CCTV targeting the second boy.

Judge Pitts said: "The CCTV spoke volumes of what you were doing, this was an appalling experience for the boys.

Larcome, who did not give evidence, was acquitted of two similar counts concerning a boy of 11 and another aged 13.

In addition to the jail sentence he has been added to the sex offenders register for life.