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A Hampshire paedophile jailed for 25 years for sex offences spanning more than 50 years has died in prison aged 83.

Ronald Dean was convicted of 25 counts including rape, indecent assault and perverting the course of justice.

Dean was pronounced dead at Albany Prison, on the Isle of Wight.

A Prison Service spokesman said Dean was believed to have died from natural causes.

He was pronounced dead in the prison healthcare wing.

The spokesman added that the independent Prisons and Probation Ombudsman will cary out an investigation.

Dean was jailed at Southampton Crown Court for 25 years after being convicted of 24 sex allegations that involved seven youngsters aged three to 16 years old.

Jurors heard how he bribed his victims with gifts, sweets, money and even alcohol to satisfy his insatiable lust and ensure their silence.

One girl was so badly traumatised by her ordeal she took an overdose.

Dean repeatedly abused another girl and a third was told not to tell anyone anything how he had defiled her, not even when he was dead.

However, his sordid past eventually came to light when one victim had the courage to tell a nurse at school who in turn informed the police.

Dean, a great-grand- father, of Fryern Close, Chandlers Ford, was convicted after a three-week trial of all 24 sex charges levelled against him as well as one of attempting to pervert the course of justice by trying to persuade one victim to drop her allegations.

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A rapist has been jailed after he was caught when a DNA sample given by his daughter for an assault implicated him in an attack in 1990. Police had exhausted all leads when a sample from Keith Davison's daughter linked him to the rape of a 24-year-old waitress in Ryde on the Isle of Wight. Davison, 52, of Ryde, was convicted of rape in January and jailed for eight years at Portsmouth Crown Court. His daughter gave a DNA sample when she was cautioned for an assault in 2006. A technique known as familial searching linked DNA from the crime scene to his daughter's sample. Davison, of Binstead Hill, voluntarily provided a sample which showed a match and he was charged. The victim had started to walk home along Ryde seafront at about midnight following her shift at a fast food outlet on 4 August, 1990, the court heard. "I hope my experience can encourage more victims to have the confidence to report rape offences" Keith Davison's victim Davison approached her from behind, put his T-shirt over her head and attacked her. Police had no suspects until advancements in technology meant a DNA profile from material found at the crime scene was obtained in 2004, but there were no matches on the national database. The breakthrough came when Davison's daughter gave a sample in 2006. Davison's victim, who legally cannot be named, said: "Eight years in prison is a good result but no sentence will undo the harm I have suffered. "At least now I can hope to move forward. 'Suicidal thoughts' "I hope my experience can encourage more victims to have the confidence to report rape offences." The court heard the victim knew of Davison as their children went to the same school. "He was just someone I would see across the playground. "I only ever saw a brief glimpse of the attacker but Davison was always someone I felt jumpy near and avoided." Judge Ian Pearson told Davison: "[The attack] has had a significant effect on her life, depression, anxiety attacks, suicidal thoughts, panic attacks. "The scientific evidence was overwhelming but you chose to challenge that evidence. "You attacked a lone woman at night, blindfolded her and gagged her." Det Ch Insp Bob Maker, head of CID on the Isle of Wight, said: "It is a very serious crime and our thoughts are with the victim and victim's family. "In some ways this is some closure for the victim and that's our primary concern." Davison was also put on the sex offenders register for life.