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A 77-year-old former educator has been convicted of indecent assault involving five female students at a school in south Belfast during the 1970s. William Lloyd-Lavery, who resides on Richmond Avenue in Lisburn, was informed by the judge at Belfast Crown Court that he is likely to face imprisonment.
Lloyd-Lavery, once a history teacher at Richmond Lodge school, was found guilty on six separate counts of indecent assault. These offenses took place over a four-year span from 1975 to 1979. However, he was acquitted of two additional indecent assault charges alleged to have occurred between 1974 and 1975.
The trial, which lasted six days, involved testimony from all six complainants. The accusations ranged from Lloyd-Lavery grabbing the girls’ bottom in the school corridor to lifting them up and inappropriately touching their genitals. Additionally, two charges of gross indecency were dismissed during the trial due to legal technicalities, and the jury was instructed to acquit him on another charge based on insufficient evidence.
After deliberating for around four and a half hours across two days, the twelve-member jury, consisting of an equal number of men and women, unanimously found Lloyd-Lavery guilty on six counts of indecent assault. Upon hearing the verdicts, Lloyd-Lavery, clad in a dark coat, visibly shook his head. The judge ordered pre-sentence reports and confirmed that the defendant will be placed on the sex offenders register for a period to be determined at sentencing. Lloyd-Lavery was granted continuing bail and is scheduled to be sentenced on 6 March
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