Update: The prisoner died aged 59 on October 20, 2018, as a result of natural causes. January 2016 Man jailed for child sex crimes after victims came forward A Wirral man has been jailed for six years for historic sex abuse offences – after his victims came forward when he was sentenced for similar perverted behaviour. Andrew Martindale received a three-year prison sentence in June 2014 for three offences of sexually abusing a sleeping 16-year-old girl in 2012. After his case was reported in the Wirral Globe one of his two other victims, whom he abused in the late 1980s and early 1990s came forward and told the police and when the other victim was contacted she also revealed he had done the same to her. 56-year-old Martindale, formerly of McKenzie Road, Leasowe, denied their allegations and faced trial but was convicted by a Liverpool Crown Court jury of seven offences of indecently assaulting the two girls. The court heard that one girl was aged between eight and 12 and the other aged ten and 11 when Martindale abused them. The older girl, who spent some time in care, had told social services about some of his behaviour but her allegations were never investigated by police, said Ben Jones, prosecuting. In an impact statement that victim said she was over-protective of her children as a result of what had happened to her at his hands. She suffers from anxiety and having to go through a trial had added to that. The other victim read her statement to the court herself and she too said her childhood had been ruined. She said she regretted not taking an opportunity as a child to reveal what was happening and she has been left with anger and trust issues. She concluded, “I’m going to get counselling. I won’t let him ruin my life anymore.” Judge Andrew Menary, QC, told long white haired Martingale, who showed no emotion, that he sentenced him on the basis he had indecently assaulted them on at least two occasions “and there may have been many other occasions.” He ordered him to sign the Sex Offenders Register for life and imposed an indefinite Sexual Harm Prevention Order.