Full NSPCC media statement on the jail sentence given to convicted sex offender Neil Wilson:

Jon Brown, NSPCC lead for tackling sexual abuse, said: “We are pleased that a more just sentence has now been imposed on this sex offender by the Court of Appeal, although the judge in the original court case should have done this. The handling of the case at the time was a perversion of justice and the depiction of a vulnerable child as somehow complicit in their abuse was a disgrace.

“It underlined the urgent need for all legal professionals acting in child abuse cases to be required to attend regular specialist training so that incorrect assumptions about abuse victims can be challenged.”