March 2015 Ex-youth club leader jailed for string of sex attacks on boy in north London during 1970s A former youth club leader was today jailed for 16 years for a string of sex attacks on a young boy in north London during the 1970s. Colin Richell, 73, met his eight-year-old victim while working at a youth club at Devonshire Hill School in Haringey in 1972. He went on to sexually abuse him over a six year period in attacks which “escalated in severity”, police said today. Wood Green Crown Court heard how he repeatedly abused the boy at his home, holiday home and in his car. The victim eventually reported Richell to police in 2013 and the case came to court in November last year. Richell, of Grenoble Gardens, Palmers Green, denied 15 counts of buggery, indecent assault and gross indecency but was convicted following a trial.