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Detectives have praised the bravery and resilience shown by four victims of a sexual predator after he was jailed for 21 years.
John Huskinson's offending spans more than four decades and includes a series of non-recent sexual offences dating back to the 1980s.
The four victims reported being sexually assaulted by Huskinson in the 1980s and 1990s.
All are now adult women but were abused by Huskinson when they were young children.
They came forward and gave accounts to specially trained officers - with all being concerned Huskinson still posed a threat to children.
More recent offending came to light in April 2022, when Huskinson was discovered to have been engaging online with someone he believed to be a young girl but was actually a member of an online activist group.
He asked the 'child' to send him naked images and police were informed.
Huskinson's mobile devices were seized and were found to contain dozens of indecent images, including 13 Category A images depicting the most serious abuse of children.
Huskinson, now aged 73, continued to deny his non-recent offending but was found guilty of 15 sexual offences following a Nottingham Crown Court trial last month.
On Friday (3 July) he was jailed for a total of 21 years at the same court.
He was convicted of 13 counts of indecent assault and two counts of attempted rape.
Huskinson pleaded guilty to engaging in sexual communications with a child, three counts of making indecent images of a child and one count of possessing extreme pornographic images.
Detective Constable Jack Beecroft, of Nottinghamshire Police, said:
"I am full of admiration for Huskinson's victims, and my thoughts are with them as he begins a lengthy prison sentence.
"It must have been incredibly harrowing to relive the abuse he subjected them to many years ago when they were young children.
"Their courage stands in stark contrast with Huskinson's own cowardly denials of his offending, which meant his victims had to face a crown court trial.
“I hope this case reassures people we will always do our utmost to bring sex offenders to justice, no matter how long ago the offences occurred.
“I also hope it gives encouragement to any other survivors of abuse that they can come forward in the confidence that we will listen carefully to them, we will investigate and we will seek justice for them - irrespective of how many years have passed.”