A member of the far-right English Defence League has been jailed for sexually abusing a schoolgirl dozens of times.
Leigh McMillan, 46, groomed his 10-year-old victim with cigarettes and drugs before subjecting her to a “spiral of sexual abuse” during the mid-1990s, jurors at the Old Bailey heard.
McMillan attacked the girl as she lay on her mother’s bed and warned: “You mustn’t tell your mum – she’d be really upset.”
He assaulted the youngster around 100 times over a five-year period, the court was told.
“What you did was entirely devoid of any form of consent,” the judge said, describing how McMillan had “deprived her of a natural childhood”, “ruined her relationship with men” and left her with a “terrible legacy” of abuse due to his “warped and persistent attacks”.
He was jailed for a total of 17 years and also made subject to notification on the sex offenders’ register and a sexual harm prevention order indefinitely.
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