September 2015 Member of ‘abhorrent paedophile gang’ sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison A paedophile from Cookham has been sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison for his involvement in an ‘abhorrent paedophile gang’. Eddie Huxley, 70, of Lower Road, Cookham, was convicted of two counts of indecent assault at Mold Crown Court, in North Wales. The former Wrexham civil servant was found guilty alongside four other men, following an investigation into historic ‘child sexual exploitation and abuse’ in the North Wales care system in the 1970s and 1980s as part of Operation Pallial by the National Crime Agency. He was found guilty on June 30. George Neil Phoenix, 63, of Windsor Road, New Broughton, Wrexham, a former bus driver, was convicted of one count of sexual abuse and sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison. David Lightfoot, 72, of Circular Drive, Chester, Cheshire, a former Wrexham publican, was sentenced to 10 years in prison after being found guilty on nine counts (six indecency/ indecent assault, two of buggery and one of attempted buggery) and not guilty of one offence of indecency. Marc Roy Norry, 55, of Hamilton Road, Connah’s Quay, Deeside, a former local radio presenter, was found guilty of six offences, (five of indecent assault and one buggery) and sentenced to 11 years in prison. He was also found not guilty of two offences (one indecent assault and one attempted buggery). Gary Cook, also known as Mark Grainger, 64, of Galway Road, Leicester, a former professional wrestler, received a 14 year sentence after being convicted of 16 counts of sexual abuse. June 2015 Former police officer guilty of Wrexham child sexual abuse A former Metropolitan police officer has been found guilty of historic sex offences in North Wales. At the end of a two month trial at Mold Crown Court, a jury considering the cases of seven defendants charged with sex abuse in the Wrexham area in the 1970s and 80s have returned with a further verdict. Former police officer Edward Julian Huxley, 70, who at the time worked as a civil servant at Wrexham Barracks, has been convicted of two charges of indecent assault on the main complainant, by a 10 to two majority. The case against him has been adjourned for sentence. Jury members have now further retired to continue their deliberations in respect of the final defendant Keith Stokes, 62, a former haulier and abattoir manager, from Quarry Hill in Farndon, Chester. Stokes has already been found not guilty of one charge of indecency with a child. Yesterday (June 29) the jury found defendant Neil Phoenix, 63, of Windsor Road, New Broughton, Wrexham , guilty of the one charge he faced, indecent assault on a boy at the home of Gary Cooke, who was alleged to have been at the centre of a paedophile ring in the 1980s. The men were arrested as part of Operation Pallial , a National Crime Agency investigation into allegations of historic sexual abuse. Phoenix, who denied the charge, was convicted by a 10 to two majority by the jury. Last Friday, June 26, retired teacher and former children’s home owner Roger Griffiths, 76, of Coed Efa Lane, New Broughton, Wrexham, was cleared of a charge of indecent assault on the main complainant after being cleared of another charge a day earlier. And on Thursday, June 25, former wrestler and Wrexham sex shop owner Mark Grainger , formerly known as Gary Cooke, aged 64, from Galway Road, Leicester, was convicted of 11 charges of indecent assault, three charges of buggery and two charges of indecency with a child. David Lightfoot, aged 72, a Wrexham publican in the 1980s from Parklands View, Little Sutton, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, was convicted of six charges of indecent assault on a male, two buggery charges, and one attempted buggery. But he was cleared of a charge of indecency with a child. Former local radio presenter Roy Norry, aged 55, from Hamilton Road, Connah’s Quay , was convicted of five charges of indecent assault on a male, one charge of buggery and was cleared of one charge of attempted buggery and one indecent assault.