'It took me years to report my abuser to the police - I hope his jailing can inspire other victims'

The victim of a sex attacker who preyed on children in the 1980s has told the Express & Star how he found the courage to report what happened to him decades after being sexually abused as a nine-year-old.

Frank Burton, 57, was sentenced to five years and ten months in prison on Thursday at Stafford Crown Court for three counts of sexually abusing boys aged nine or ten when he was himself a young man.