April 2016 Five-year prison sentence for Coventry man A Coventry man who admitted sex offences against a young boy has been jailed for more than five years. Vincent Nixon had pleaded guilty to indecently assaulting a boy under the age of 14 in the 1990s and was sentenced at Warwick Crown Court on Thursday. He was handed a prison sentence of five years and four months and the 54-year-old, of Villa Road, Radford, will also sign the sex offenders’ register for life. All of the charges against Nixon were against the same victim and all occurred in Coventry.