A former company director has gone on the run after being found guilty of child sex offences.
Mark Tilley, 60, was charged with multiple counts of raping and indecently assaulting a girl under the age of 14. The offences happened in the 1990s.
Shortly before lunch on Thursday, the jury found Tilley, who was the director of a Warrington-based Instrument Consultant Technical Services Ltd, guilty of all six charges. But the dock at the back of Teesside Crown Court was empty, TeesideLive reports.