March 2016

Paedophile finally brought to justice

A Trowbridge man has been jailed after admitting sexually abusing a child in the 1980s – 30 years after the girl first complained to police.

Tony Campbell, now 65, has been jailed for seven years for what he did to the girl in the 1980s.

Campbell, from Willow Grove in Trowbridge, finally admitted sexually abuse the girl from late 1981, when she was under ten years old, and late 1983.

She first went to the police in 1986 to complain about the abuse she had suffered, but Campbell persuaded her to withdraw the allegation, and police took the matter no further.

The same thing happened again in 1992, and it wasn’t until 2014 that he was arrested and charged.

A week before he was due to stand trial, having consistently denied any wrong-doing, he changed his plea and admitted the four charges, which were based on a ‘multi-incident’ abuse, with two sample cases of abuse in each year.