September 1999 Jail for abuser who was trusted by family A paedophile who put an entire family of youngsters through a catalogue of sex abuse was jailed for five years yesterday. James Sneddon, 62, was trusted by the parents of the two brothers and their sister. He took them to the seaside, parks, pictures and the circus. But Sneddon had only one thing on his mind – sex with the children afterwards. Temporary Judge Alastair Stewart, QC, said the description of their ordeals was as bad as he had ever heard. The judge was told that 27 years after first being abused, one of the boys, now 37, hates Sneddon so much for what he did to his innocence, he could kill him. Sneddon, of Drury Lane Court, Calderwood, East Kilbride, who wears dark glasses because he is going blind, and cannot walk without sticks, pleaded guilty to the charges at the High Court in Glasgow.