January 2008 Sexual assaults led to suicide bid of victim Years after becoming the victim of sex assaults by a factory worker, a woman tried to commit suicide, a court has been told. And almost two decades after he carried out assaults on his victim, Gary Maylor is beginning jail sentences totalling three years, nine months. Preston Crown Court Judge Pamela Badley said the suicide attempt, which thankfully was not successful, had been largely blamed on the girl being badly affected by what he had done. Maylor, 48, of Gaskell Road, Lower Penwortham, near Preston, was convicted on four charges of indecent assault by a jury at Preston Crown Court. He indecently touched his victim when she was eight or nine years old, said prosecutor Richard Hunt He was also found guilty, at an earlier trial, on a separate allegation of assault causing actual bodily harm. The jury had been told that on that occasion he hit his victim so hard she suffered temporary hearing loss. Maylor denied all charges and told the jury the offences had not happened. His barrister, Zillah Williams, told the court he had no previous convictions of any kind and still maintained his denials of the offences. For a man of his previous good character jail would be hard to endure, she explained. Judge Bradley told Maylor he had been convicted by the jury of serious offences against a young victim who was badly affected by the memory of what happened to her. She sentenced him to three years, nine months on the sex charges, with six months concurrent for the assault causing actual bodily harm on the woman. In addition, Maylor will be put on the Sex Offenders’ Register for life and is disqualified from ever working with children.