A born-again Christian who sexually abused boys and girls at his wife’s child minding business was jailed for 22 years on Friday.
William Patterson had been convicted last year of 84 counts of abusing children over a 13 year period starting in September 2005.
The sentence passed on Patterson, 69, by Judge Philip Babington at Coleraine Crown today is one of the longest jail terms ever imposed on a convicted paedophile in Northern Ireland.
