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A Welsh sex predator has been jailed after repeatedly abusing a female child
Stephen Heap has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for sexual assaults on a young female child in the Vale of Glamorgan.
His offences were reported to South Wales Police when a victim bravely came forward in 2020.
Witnesses were traced across the UK as part of a thorough and protracted investigation.
Heap, of Chadderton, Oldham, denied the offences but was found guilty following a trial at Cardiff Crown Court in June 2025.
He was convicted of nine offences – four indecent assaults, two sexual assaults, assault of a child by penetration, sexual activity with a child and assault by penetration.
The 58-year-old was sentenced at Merthyr Crown Court on November 7, 2025, to 16 years in prison plus one-year extended licence.
In a statement to the court, the victim described experiencing nightmares, feeling isolated, and ‘unable to trust anyone’, because of Heap’s actions.