RETIRED Hereford police officer Alan Saffery has been found guilty of sex offences against a girl aged 12 to 15 while he was serving in the county.
The 61-year-old, of Spinney Grove, Hampton Dene, Hereford, has this afternoon been jailed for 12 years after a jury at Worcester Crown Court reached its verdict this morning.
Saffery was cleared on two charges of raping a second girl aged under 16 in 1986.
The verdicts of guilty to six counts of indecently assaulting the first girl and two of having sex with her - covering the period from 1977 to 1981 - were by a majority of 11 to one.
Saffery was also convicted on two allegations of having child pornography images on his computer in 2013.
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