A pedophile who was nabbed after a popular British psychic received a message during a live seance has been jailed for five years.
Terrance Dunstan, 61, eluded authorities for 11 years after he abused three girls at his home, the Yorkshire Evening Post reports.
But his undoing began when psychic Patrick Hutchinson, performing a show in a pub, said he had a message from the grandmother of a girl in the audience.
The grandmother urged the girl, now aged 20, to report her attacker because he was still at large.
The girl, who had never told anyone about the crime, confided in a 19-year-old friend who revealed she too had been abused by Dunstan.
The pair agreed to report his crimes to the police and alerted them in October last year.
A third victim, now aged 17, also came forward with similar allegations about the father of eight.
Dunstan was convicted of indecently assaulting three children aged nine to 11 between 1997 and 2001.
During the trial, the jury heard how Dunstan had only pleaded guilty to an earlier charge of indecent assault to avoid being locked up.
In sentencing, Judge Rodney Grant said the crimes were of the "most serious" and only took place after he encouraged them to visit.
"Once they were there you, in effect, indulged in grooming them for sexual purposes by indulging in play fighting that not only groomed them in the way that I mentioned but also established your control over them," Judge Grant said.
Dunstan will remain on the sec offenders' register for the rest of his life.
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