FORMER BUSINESSMAN AND CHARITY WORKER GRANT FINDLEY JAILED IN DURHAM FOR GROOMING TEENAGER
Grant Findley, a 42-year-old former successful businessman and charity volunteer from Stream Valley Farm, Burnhope, Durham, has been sentenced to three years in prison after being convicted of grooming and sexually assaulting a teenage girl.Findley, who denied ten counts of sexual activity with a child and one count of meeting a child following sexual grooming, was found guilty by a jury.
At Durham Crown Court on Tuesday, April 9, Judge Jo Kidd delivered the sentence and commented, "You conducted yourself previously with great hard work, perseverance, and intelligence.
You were on the face of it a generous and kind man.
That reputation and that behaviour masked your pursuit of a child in order to satisfy your sexual interest in children.
Your perception of women was clearly in my view warped and misogynistic." The court heard that Findley told the schoolgirl he could be her "sugar daddy" once she turned 16 and said she wouldn’t be allowed to have a boyfriend.
During the trial, the victim bravely read an impact statement, sharing, "Because of what Grant did to me, I now really struggle to trust people, especially men.
I now struggle to sleep, suffering repeated nightmares where I relive what Grant did and said to me.
I have found the last few years incredibly draining.
When Grant was doing it to me, it made me feel dirty.
My anxiety has gotten so bad I can't face answering the door." As part of his sentence, Findley is also required to sign the sex offenders' register and will be subject to an indefinite Sexual Harm Prevention Order.
