UNITED KINGDOM
Northern Echo
A PERVERTED choirmaster has been jailed for a string of sex offences on young girls during the 60s and 70s.
John Gilbert Blacktop, who went on the run for nine days following his conviction, has been imprisoned for 21-years for a catalogue of offending on five young victims.
The 81-year-old, of Morecambe, Lancashire, was sentenced in his absence last month after he failed to attend Bradford Crown Court where a jury had earlier convicted him of 33 counts of indecent assault, one count of rape and one count of attempted rape.
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