A FORMER professional boxer has been jailed for indecent assaults on two young girls committed 30 years apart.

Kenneth Lancaster, 67, of Eastern Road, Haywards Heath, admitted two counts of indecent assault, the first committed in 1962 and the second some time between the late Eighties and early 1990s.

A letter written by

Lancaster was read to Lewes Crown Court.

It said: "I am guilty of the charges and whatever happens no punishment can outweigh the shame I will carry for the rest of my life."

Angus Robertson, defending, told Judge Anthony Scott-Gall: "Your honour has to sentence a man who has had a hard life.

"He is a man who has been without parental support. A man who had to fend for himself from an early age.

"He has been a professional boxer, in the Services, and a builder. I ask your honour to consider the likely effect of a prison sentence on a man who is not in the best of health."

The judge sentenced Lancaster to 12 months, ordered he should be subject to a supervision order upon release and that he should remain

on the sexual offenders' register for seven

years.

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