April 2003 ‘Justice is done’ as sex monster jailed A VICTIM of a sex monster who abused young girls over more than 25 years has spoken of her relief after he was jailed. The victim said justice had been done as paedophile Colin Knight, 70, was imprisoned for six years, given four years on extended licence and ordered to sign the Sex Offenders’ Register for the rest of his life. Cambridge Crown Court was told that Knight, of Hauxton Road, Little Shelford, was responsible for a shocking catalogue of abuse on girls stretching back to the 1970s. He enticed his victims into his garden shed and drove them to secluded fields to abuse them. During the 1990s he had a sexual relationship with a nine-year-old girl until she was 14. The former builder denied abusing the girls but a jury last month convicted him on 18 counts following a trial at Cambridge Crown Court. Sentencing Knight yesterday, Judge Jonathan Howarth said: “The time span covered some 25 years. During that time you progressively used young girls and you did so to satisfy your own sexual needs, giving no thoughts whatsoever of the impact on these young girls. “It’s quite clear to me you are a continuing danger to young girls. “My intention is that the rest of your natural life you shall be in custody or under strict supervision.” Charles Kellett, defending, said Knight still had the support of his family, who were in court yesterday to see him sentenced. He said Knight had been a hardworking man who looked after his family. Outside the court the victim said: “I think justice has been done; we have got the result we wanted and he is going to prison. “He doesn’t realise the effect he has had on all of our lives. He doesn’t believe he has done anything wrong.” Det Sgt Darryl Preston, one of the investigating officers, said after the case: “The sentence will serve its purpose of keeping him away from the public, and young girls in particular, for the rest of his life.”