In 2022, the Offender Register reported that George Granville Gibson, a retired archdeacon, had been jailed for a third time after being convicted of sexual abuse in the 1970s.
George Granville Gibson, 86, from County Durham, denied rubbing himself against his teenage victim in a church hall and at a party.
He was sentenced at Durham Crown Court to 21 months in prison for twice indecently assaulting the boy, who was aged 17 or 18 at the time.
He came forward to the police after seeing media reports of Gibson’s first trial for historical abuse in 2016, when he was jailed for 12 months for indecently assaulting two men in the 1970s.
Gibson, of Wesley Park, Darlington, was also convicted in 2019 and was handed a further 10 months for indecently assaulting a teenager, again in the 1970s.
The court heard the teenager had been psychologically harmed by what happened and had needed counselling.
The judge told Gibson: “You were, of course, a highly esteemed member of the community – he was a teenager and considered himself, in his words, a nobody.”
A previous independent review by church authorities into Gibson’s offending found he was arrogant about his senior position and that complaints about his behaviour were dismissed.
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