Broadcaster John Caine convicted of sexual assault

John Caine who worked for BBC Radio Merseyside has been convicted of sexually assaulting a boy in the 1970s.

Caine who also worked for ATV Midlands and Central Television in the 1980s and 90s, has been jailed after being found guilty of sexual crimes against a young boy. Caine, who used to work as a reporter for ATV Today and Central News, faced justice via videolink at Caernarfon Crown Court where he was sentenced to eight years for indecently assaulting a teenage boy from the Flintshire area back in the late 1970s when he worked for BBC local radio.

The disgraced broadcaster is already a convicted paedophile with offences across the 1970s, 80s and 90s. He appeared via video link from HMP Berwyn in Wrexham. The court heard how the unnamed victim was under 16 when Caine became a friend of the family. Interested in broadcasting the boy was lured into the world of the Radio Merseyside presenter with his flash cars and access to see the BBC studios.

Caine also worked for the BBC in Merseyside / Pictured: BBC News 1970s logo and TV Centre Promo

The now 69-year-old Caine was revealed to have groped the teen over his clothes on more than one occasion while driving him home from the Corporation’s Liverpool studio site. It was made clear no inappropriate activity took place on BBC premises.

The court heard how Caine, on one occasion, had performed a sex act on the boy while another – unidentified male – had held the victim down. Judge Timothy Petts handed Caine an eight-year jail term and a sexual harm prevention order on him for the next two decades. He must also sign onto the sex offenders register for the rest of his life.

The victim in this case said in a court statement the sexual assaults had ‘defined his whole life’ adding that he has ‘never returned to the person that I was or became the person I would or could have been’ had the incidents not happened.