101-Year-Old British Man Jailed For 13 Years For Historical Child S3x Offences

A 101-year-old man has been jailed for 13 years for committing 30 child s3x offences. Ralph Clarke, of Erdington, Birmingham, is thought to be the oldest person convicted in British legal history.
Judge Richard Bond QC said Clarke had been guilty of "systematic abuse" between 1974 and 1983.

He was found guilty of 21 counts of abusing two girls and admitted nine charges relating to a boy during his trial at Birmingham Crown Court.

The court heard the retired haulier abused the girls at his home in of Holly Lane, Erdington, in the cab of his truck and in his garden shed.