A convicted child molester muttered obscenities as he was told that his victim's life had been irreparably changed by the man who subjected him to a campaign of sexual abuse four decades ago.

Danny Brady, 63, who was known to his victim as ‘Danny B’, traded sweets and toys for sexual favours – and ordered the boy to keep their encounters secret.

The man, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, said in a victim personal statement read to the court that he hates going to sleep ‘because I know the nightmares will come’ in which he relieves the abuse.

As a result of being molested by Brady he had turned to sniffing glue as a teenager before spiralling into drug addiction. He gave up dreams of joining the army or becoming a chef and his relationship with his family suffered.

“My life has not turned out the way I wanted it to and it’s all stemmed from being sexually abused as a child,” he told the court.

As he listened to the statement, Brady muttered ‘b******s’ from behind the glass of the dock.

Another victim – childhood friends with the first – said he felt ‘enormous guilt’ at having left his pal in the woods with Brady. “He was my best friend and I didn’t know how to protect him.”

Brady, then in his 20s, molested the two boys in a woodland play area on the edge of the RAF Brize Norton air base, Carterton, in the early 1980s.

He asked one of the boys if he ‘wanted to be a big man and have a big man’s secret’, jurors heard.

 

Danny Brady (right) outside Oxford Crown Court

 

The defendant exposed himself and got the boys to perform sex acts on him.

The court was told that Brady admitted abusing two other boys, then aged around 11 or 12, inviting them to his flat and giving them pornography and cigarettes.

Prosecutor Kim Preston said there had been ‘no evidence’ of remorse from Brady, as far as the Crown was concerned.

However, the defendant’s barrister said Brady had severe learning difficulties meaning it was hard to hold him to the same standards as others. He himself had been sexually abused as a child and teenager.

Jailing him for five years with an extended year on licence, Judge Maria Lamb told Brady: “It may well be that the expectations of those who have been the victim of your behaviour, looking at the very much longer sentences which are available under the 2003 [Sexual Offences] Act, a new Act which post-dates your offending, will be disappointed by the length of the sentences which you are to receive.

“No sentence passed by this court can ever compensate or seek to compensate whose who have been sexually abused and have had to live with the awful consequences about which we have heard during the course of those victim personal statements we have heard read out.

“You yourself know that because you yourself say you were a victim of sexual abuse.”

Brady, of Southwark, London, was found guilty last summer of indecency with a child and indecent assault . He admitted eight other counts of indecency with a child and indecent assault.

In 1997, Brady was jailed for eight years at Winchester Crown Court on indecency charges. The sentence was later reduced to five years on appeal. He remains a registered sex offender.

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