School welfare worker guilty of sexual assaults

A erstwhile schoolhouse payment serviceman and Army cadet person has been recovered blameworthy of sexually assaulting teenage girls.

Neil Beckett, 43, with an code astatine Kilmore, adjacent Crossgar successful County Down, was told by the justice that from "this infinitesimal on, you are a registered enactment offender".

Beckett was recovered blameworthy of 16 counts of intersexual battle and 1 number of intersexual grooming.

They span a play of 8 years betwixt 2015 and 2023.

Beckett was recovered not blameworthy of rape which was alleged to person taken spot sometime betwixt 2013 and 2015 portion helium was an Army cadet leader.

He was besides recovered not blameworthy of intersexual connection with a kid and 10 further counts of intersexual assault.

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