October 2008 Man jailed for five-year abuse of young boy A HAMPSHIRE man who repeatedly forced a young boy to engage in sex acts over a five-year period has been jailed. When the child attempted to reject his advances, Jason Fleet threatened him and on occasions even shot him in the face with a ball bearing gun and threw a kitchen knife at him. The abuse happened when the youngster, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was aged between eight and 13. After being convicted of three specimen offences by a Portsmouth Crown Court jury, Fleet, 21, of Cranborne Walk, Fareham, was sentenced to eight months behind bars for each, with the terms running concurrently. Judge Roger Hetherington told Fleet, a baker, he felt he had no option but to jail him. “You would have known perfectly well that what you were doing was wrong,” said the judge. Fleet has also been made to sign the sex offenders’ register, after being convicted of indecent assault, sexual assault on a child, and sexual activity with a child.