Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox A wealthy retired businessman who served in the RAF has been jailed for for a series of indecent assaults committed against girls as young as seven.
Victor Ward, now 79, molested three girls, two of them while they were teenagers and one from the age of seven or eight, from the mid 1980s.
The former director of Warton Metals based in Ramsbtottom began his crimes when he was in his 40s but his victims only came to the police with their allegations from 2019.
Ward, who will turn 80 in one week, of Newcombe Road in Ramsbottom, showed no reaction when he was jailed for nine years at Minshull Street Crown Court.
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