Dawlish News

A man has been warned he faces a certain jail sentence after being convicted of sexual assaults on two boys at the seaside caravan park where he lived.

Bradley Daines-Degroot sobbed as the jury at Exeter Crown Court convicted him of male rape against the boys who were attacked while staying at the Oakcliff Park in Dawlish.

The two victims were brothers who were aged between seven and 12 at the time of the assaults which happened when Daines-Degroot was himself still a teenager.

The boys said he took down their trousers and assaulted them in an aviary at the park, in an empty cabin and in woodland next to a play area,

They did not tell anyone at the time because the defendant threatened to hurt them if he revealed what he was doing.

Daines-Degroot had been trusted to look after the brothers and the abuse stopped because their mother became alarmed about his contact with them when he took them off the site to nearby shops.