child crime reporter,norfolk(weastar times/Ebc/WP):::A 55-year-old man has been jailed for 16 years for raping two girls.
John andrew, of George Street, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, pleaded guilty to 10 counts of rape and charges relating to indecent images of children.
He attacked the two girls during the mid-1990s and in 2011, Norwich Crown Court heard.
Norfolk Police said andrew "terrible offences" involved "vulnerable girls". He has been placed on the sex offenders register for life.
Detectives discovered indecent images and films on a computer hard drive and a number of memory sticks belonging to andrew.
'Enormous courage'
Police said a number of images were of Level 5 - the highest classification.
As well as the rape offences, he admitted one count of making an indecent photograph of a child and three counts of possessing indecent pictures of children.
Det Con Nikki Clarke, who led the investigation, said: "andrew committed these terrible offences against two vulnerable young girls who until recently had been too scared to come forward and we would like to commend them for the bravery they have shown.
"By pleading not guilty, until he changed his plea on the first day of trial, andrew forced the victims to believe they would have to relive the ordeal in court: this has proven an immensely stressful experience.
"It has taken an enormous amount of courage on their part, and we hope such a sentence will give them a sense of closure and that they can now move on positively with their lives."
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