Redvers ‘Barney’ Barnard, who held himself out as a Pagan who practiced ‘white magic’ for healing purposes, manipulated and abused young girls in Greater Manchester. He has been jailed for 22 years
Barnard began abusing an underage girl before raping and taking pornographic images of her. Barnard also abused three other young girls at addresses in Salford, bringing the total number of victims to six.
Barnard, 56, formerly of Eccles, was found guilty of 15 sex offences against the six victims, who were as young as four when the abuse began.
He had denied all the offences, which stretched back to the early eighties, claiming the victims were all lying.
In total, Barnard was found guilty of three rapes and sixteen indecent assaults.