A former newsagent has been jailed for sexual offences against a schoolboy in his Dewsbury shop more than 25 years ago.
Hashim Patel, 72, was convicted by a jury at Leeds Crown Court on two charges of indecent assault on the teenager in the 1980s.
Angus MacDonald prosecuting said the boy, who was about 14 at the time, was known to Patel because papers were delivered to his home. That meant he also knew his age.
On the date in question when the boy went into the shop Patel asked him if he liked blue movies. He showed him a pornographic magazine before taking him into the storeroom where he committed the two offences.
The court heard the boy did not complain until he was an adult many years later when he suddenly walked into a police station.
In the meantime Patel had been jailed for 12 months in the 1990s for offences against two other boys.
Patel, of Moorlands Road, Dewsbury was jailed for 14 months and ordered to register as a sex offender for 10 years.
Judge Neil Clark said the boy was vulnerable at the time because of his family situation and Patel was aware of that.
He said the victim had suffered many problems, including alcoholism since. “It seems to me that I cannot avoid the fact that this was offending against a child and he has had to live with that all of his life.”
