A Cornish bard with a "sinister and depraved" side to his personality has been jailed for 13 years for sexually assaulting five young girls over a 20-year period.
Redruth author and poet Leslie Merton, was convicted by a jury of 20 counts of indecent assault and indecency with a child on Friday at Truro Crown Court.
The 70-year-old, who was made a bard in 2004, by the Cornish Cornish Gorsedh, for his contribution to Cornish literature, sexually assaulted the girls, who cannot be named for legal...
