March 2009 Pensioner jailed for child abuse A PENSIONER is behind bars today for a string of sex attacks on a child more than 30 years ago. John Jones, 65, began to abuse the girl in 1976, when she was just seven years old. Liverpool crown court heard he frequently sexually assaulted the schoolgirl over the next seven years. Jailing Jones for two-and-a-half years, Judge Mark Brown said: “Your victim was at a very young age, there was persistent and frequent abuse and it continued for many years.” Jones, of St John’s Court, Waterloo, admitted seven charges of indecent assault and seven charges of indecency with a child.