Man aged 81 jailed over child sex

An 81-year-old man from Norfolk has been jailed for five years for sexually assaulting three girls, aged as young as five.

Ernest Winn of Mundesley, was put on the sex offenders register for life and banned from ever working with children.

He admitted five offences of indecency with one of the girls, two against a second girl and two against the third.

Judge Simon Barham said he was jailed for five years for a "grave offence" of sexual assault against the first girl.

He was given three-year jail sentences to run concurrently for all the other offences.

Martyn Ivory, prosecuting, said the offences occurred over several years between 1993 and 2000 beginning when two of the children were five and the third aged six, and ending when they were eight or nine.

Katherine Moore, defending, said Winn was previously a man of good character. She said they were old offences and Winn was remorseful.