OAP abused girls

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A PENSIONER who sexually abused two little girls has been set free by a court but only to give social services time to organise care for his 94-year-old mother while he is in prison. Next week Alan Westmorland, 67, will return to Carlisle Crown Court to be locked up pending his final sentence, which the judge warned him on Thursday would be substantial. Westmorland, a former taxi driver who lives in Broad Street, Carlisle, had denied a total of 10 charges. But he was convicted of eight of them six charges of indecently assaulting one girl and two more of indecency with each. He was cleared of two charges of indecently assaulting the second girl. During the trial the girls, who are now in their teens, told how he regularly abused them when they were under 10, although they only told the police about it last year. After the verdicts Westmorlands barrister, Keith Thomas, pleaded for bail as an act of mercy, because social services needed at least a week to organise care for his mother. She knows he is in court but does not understand the seriousness of his predicament, he said. Judge Peter Hughes QC allowed Westmorland bail for a week, but only on condition that he returns to court to be locked up next Thursday. Because of the nature of the offences, and concerns about how he may react to his position, I would not normally grant bail, the judge said.