October 1999 Sex abuse pensioner jailed A pensioner was jailed for six years yesterday at the High Court in Edinburgh for sex abuse offences against children which began more than 40 years ago. John Tracey, 65, molested one girl for almost six years from the age of nine and subjected another to a nine-year ordeal beginning on her fifth birthday. Tracey, of Biggarshiels Road, Biggar, Lanarkshire, admitted four indecency offences.