OAP described as ‘gentle and kind’ after surviving frenzied murder bid revealed as serial PAEDOPHILE
Child abuser Harry Campbell jailed for string of sex attacks on kids as young as seven
A PENSIONER who survived a frenzied murder bid has been convicted of being a child abuser.
Paedophile Harry Campbell was tortured, beaten and left in a pool of his own blood in an attack on his life in 2014.
But he is now behind bars after he was convicted of a string of historic sex attacks on underage boys and girls in the 1970s and 80s.
Campbell, 68 was hailed as a “gentle, kind and helpful” man who was devoted to his dogs when he was almost killed by Glynn Sullivan.
But his secret past life was about to catch up with him.
Now a top judge has warned him to expect a “significant” sentence for his crimes.
A Teesside Crown Court jury convicted him of five offences, including indecent assault.
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Prosecutors say he targeted children as young as seven.
Campbell shook his head as the 11-strong jury reached majority verdicts on three of the five counts he was convicted of.
After the ruling Campbell gazed straight ahead as he was told he would be heading straight to jail.
Frail Campbell, of Boosbeck, North Yorks is already starting what is likely to be a lengthy prison sentence after judge Stephen Ashurst said: “To grant him bail at this stage would be offering him false hope.”
Monday’s hearing heard Campbell’s GP will be asked to give an update on his health ahead of his sentencing. That is expected to detail how he is recovering from the vicious beating he endured at the hands of Sullivan who was jailed for life.
Sullivan’s trial heard how he stabbed Campbell repeatedly with a 12 inch knife which was caked in blood.
Campbell was found in a pool of his own blood at his home which had been “ransacked”, suffering head injuries, brain bleeding, knife wounds and fractures to the face and jaw. He was kept in an induced coma before he underwent six hours of surgery.
At his trial Campbell denied the 11 charges he faced. He was either found not guilty of the jury failed to reach a decision on the majority of the charges.
The Crown Prosecution Service has now been told to go back and decide whether to seek a re-trial for those in which a decision wasn’t reached.
But as he was taken away ahead of sentencing, Campbell clutched a bag of his “bare essentials”, having known a custodial sentence was likely upon conviction.
He was cleared of making a boy and girl, aged five and seven, watch him have sex with his ex girlfriend.
Praising the jury for listening to what he described as a “difficult” case, Judge Ashurst said Campbell’s victims would be offered the chance to attend the sentencing hearing.
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