FORMER PORTSMOUTH TEACHER AND WATERLOOVILLE SCOUTMASTER SPARED JAIL FOR ABUSING BOY
Former Waterlooville scoutmaster and teacher Gary Coy, 65, groomed, isolated and abused the 12-year-old boy, rubbing his body and genitals when he had him alone.Prosecutor William Sneddon said Coy repeatedly touched the 12-year-old schoolboy who felt ‘unwell and nauseous’ at his actions in the late 1980s.
The boy said Coy ‘pulled’ him close and ‘asked if it was okay’ and started ‘rubbing my chest’ before touching him intimately.
In a victim statement, the man said: ‘The incident has had a massive impact on my life.’ He suffered from difficulties in forming relationships and alcohol abuse.
The man added: ‘The incident is never going to go away, and affects everything.’ The court heard Coy had been jailed in 1995 for nine charges of indecent assaults against young boys.
At that time, he confessed to 23 other offences but ‘forgot’ about the 12-year-old boy in the latest prosecution.
Following his release, he was prosecuted in April 2009 for two indecent assaults against boys under 14 in 1973 and handed a community rehabilitation order.
In 2019, he was again investigated over the abuse, and earlier this year, he pleaded guilty to indecently assaulting the victim.
Coy, a former teacher at Priory School in Portsmouth and Crookhorn School, was handed a two-year jail sentence suspended for two years.
He must complete 30 days’ rehabilitation activities and sign the sex offenders’ register for 10 years.
The judge told Coy: ‘You groomed this child aged 12 and it’s quite obvious that was your plan.
You sexually assaulted him, causing untold harm and damage that has persisted ever since.’ Coy is ordered to pay £5,000 in compensation, although Remedy Law’s Charles Derham commented: ‘This sum is likely only a small part of the true recompense, not even covering potentially needed therapeutic treatment.’ If you were subject to abuse at the hands of Coy, please contact Charles Derham on 02393552153 or by email on [email protected].
