March 2014
Police officer jailed for sexually abusing a 14 year old girl
An award-winning North Wales Police officer has been jailed for 18 months for sexually abusing a 14 year old schoolgirl.
PC Gary Donnelly, 47, from Llandudno, was found guilty at Caernarfon Crown Court of two counts of indecent assault in 2002 on a girl of 14.
Donnelly denied the offences during a re-trial after a previous jury failed to reach a verdict.
He must also register as a sex offender for 10 years.
The court heard Donnelly had told his victim that she reminded him of his late wife, who had died in the same year during childbirth.
Recorder Huw Rees told him: “The offences were committed at a traumatic time for you, some two months or so after the tragic death of your wife.”
The judge said Donnelly had “coerced” the girl into his bed, kissing…
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