THOMAS ALLISON SENTENCED IN EDINBURGH FOR SEXUAL OFFENSES AGAINST YOUNG GIRL
A 66-year-old Wearside man is facing the prospect of dying in prison after he was jailed for 20 years for the multiple rape and sexual assault of two children.Thomas Allison systematically abused a girl and a boy, Teesside Crown Court heard.
The court heard Allison raped the girl in his car and in other locations He took the boy to an empty house where he attempted to rape him.
Allison’s offences came to light years later when one of his victims confided in a friend.
Allison, of York Crescent, Hetton, denied all the offences alleged against him He was convicted by a jury after a trial lasting three weeks of four charges of rape, attempted rape, three charges of assault by penetration, and seven charges of sexual assault.
The jury acquitted him of 11 charges of sexual assault, allegedly against four other children.
