Forty-nine-year-old Wazir Potter was yesterday afternoon sentenced to 18 years behind bars for the rape of a 12-year-old boy in 2018.
A jury had convicted Potter last month but his sentence had been deferred for a probation report and victim impact statement.
Senior Probation and Social Services Officer, Carol Beresford, by whom the report was read said that even as the offender continues to profess his innocence in the face of the jury’s verdict, the child continues to suffer psychologically.