Olympic brothers guilty of abuse

[30 September 2008]

The brother of an Olympic gold medallist who was jailed this year for abusing young girls, has also been found guilty of child sex abuse.

Brian Phelps was jailed in May for nine years, for abuse between 1976 and 1987. He admitted to 42 offences of abusing three girls, one as young as six years old, and was placed on the Sex Offenders Register. His brother John Phelps, 52, a previous Olympic canoeist, has been found guilty of 16 offences between 1973 and 1993, when he ran a gym in Poole. He was convicted of indecent assault, rape and inciting a child to commit an act of gross indecency against five girls - the youngest was four years old.

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