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| Jail for extradited sex attacker | |
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| A man wanted by police for six years who was extradited to the UK from the Irish Republic has been jailed for 12 years for sex attacks, theft and arson. | |
| Roger Gardener, 63, from Blackwood, in Caerphilly county, was found guilty at Newport Crown Court of rape and indecent assault of a girl under 14. | Roger Gardener, 63, from Blackwood, in Caerphilly county, was found guilty at Newport Crown Court of rape and indecent assault of a girl under 14. |
| He was also convicted of theft and an arson attack on his own home. | |
| The judge sentenced him to eight years for the sex attacks and four years for arson, to be served consecutively. | The judge sentenced him to eight years for the sex attacks and four years for arson, to be served consecutively. |
| He was also banned from working with children and ordered to go on the sex offenders register for life. | He was also banned from working with children and ordered to go on the sex offenders register for life. |
| Gardener befriended the girl at a cafe in Fleur-de-Lys, in Caerphilly county, in the 1980s. | |
| He raped her as he set up a disco at the village hall and also got her to take part in a "threesome" with another young girl. | |
| At an earlier trial Gardener was also convicted of getting two brothers to burn down his home after being convicted of indecently assaulting another two young people. | |
| Gardner absconded as the police stared to investigate the latest charges of rape and indecent assault against him. |