March 2004 OAP gets 12 years for abuse of girls A MID Wales pensioner whose catalogue of abuse of young girls spanned three decades was jailed for 12 years yesterday.  John Arthur Lane, 69,of Pendinas,Coed-y-Glyn, Guilsfield near Welshpool, admitted 16 offences of indecent assault and unlawful sexual intercourse involving five victims.  Lane indecently touched a girl aged 12, who told her mother. Police were informed and their investigation revealed the full extent of what Lane had been doing over the years,Mold Crown Court was told.  Judge Huw Daniel told him the case was about as bad as it could get.  He placed Lane on the sex-offenders’ register for life, and made an order banning contact with children. He also made a special restraining order which means that he can never contact any of his victims.  He had started sexually abusing girls when he was in his early 30s Lane stressed that he had not been violent with any of his victims.