A PENGAM pensioner has been found guilty of three counts of indecently assaulting a girl under the age of 16.

Derrick Evans, aged 85, of St Deinols Close, was found guilty today by a jury at Newport Crown Court.

He was found not guilty of two other counts of indecently assaulting a girl under the age of 16.

He previously pleaded guilty to a further indecent assault charge at Newport Magistrates' Court.

Evans will be sentenced on June 17.

Earlier in the trial when the jury were told that the complainant did not think anyone would believe her over “this upstanding member of the community” at the time of the abuse in the 1980s.