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DNA snares sex offender two decades after sickening crime
A paedophile serving life for a string of abductions and sexual assaults on young girls has been jailed for another horrific crime 20 years ago.
Terence McVicar, 48, of Bradford, was snared by DNA after abducting a four-year-old girl from a playground and sexually abusing her in 1990.
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McVicar, then 28, had checked the innocent child's mother wasn't around, offered her some sweets and led her over two miles to his bedsit.
He then took the blond-haired girl into Bradford city centre before abandoning her in front of a jewellers, Leeds Crown Court heard.
The paedophile is already 10 years into a life sentence for offences he carried out in 2000, which also involved offering children sweets.
He committed a string of offences involving four girls and was found guilty of kidnap, indecent assault and attempted abduction.
McVicar's conviction was a cold case review as part of West Yorkshire Police's Operation Recall and it was a preserved hair found on the victim that that caught him. He was arrested on January 12 this year and made full admissions about what had happened.
The Recorder of Leeds, Judge Peter Collier QC, passed concurrent life sentences for two counts of indecent assault and one of kidnap.
Det Supt Colin Prime, who led the investigation for Operation Recall, said: "We are pleased that after almost twenty years, McVicar has been sentenced for this dreadful crime. I want to praise the courage of the victim and her family who have waited so long to see justice done."
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