NORFOLK YOUTH LEADER HARRY DAY WHO ABUSED BOYS DIED IN JAIL
NOW DEAD A man awarded the MBE for his voluntary work with youngsters died in prison while serving a sentence for sex offences against boys.Harry Charles Day, from North Walsham, was jailed for 13-years in 2009 for 20 sexual offences, including gross indecency and incitement, against eight boys.
In 2016 he was sentenced to a further three years in prison, to run concurrently, for seven offences of indecent assault against four victims all under the age of 16 at the time.
The offences took place between 1969 and 1986 at the Young Citizens Guild at Hemsby – a charity initially launched by Day in the 1950s.
He received his MBE in 2004 and a British Empire Medal for his work with youth aged eight to 18.
The Young Citizens Guild taught teenagers to work with emergency services.
Around 100 youngsters attended camps each year.
Day was convicted of 11 counts of gross indecency on boys in his care between 1985 and 1990.
He was charged again in 2015, bringing the total victims to 12.
He died aged 87 at HMP Five Wells in Northamptonshire in September 2024, while serving his sentence.
He died in a hospice of leukaemia.
The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman criticized the Prison Service for restraining him before his death.
His death was confirmed to have occurred while still serving his sentence, and he was a known convicted sex offender.
