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A boarding school housemaster already jailed for abusing boys in his care has admitted another attack after his victim came forward 40 years later.

Graham John Carter, 66, was jailed for seven years for 23 different offences after admitting a string of sex attacks on boys in his care.

He was arrested in March 2003 by the South Wales Police’s Operation Goldfinch team investigating sexual abuse at children’s homes.

Carter admitted 19 charges of indecent assault on boys aged around 12 or 13 between 1973 and 1979 against six boys and asked for a further five charges against three other youngsters to be taken into consideration.

He also admitted making and possessing thousands of indecent photographs of children.

But he was back in the dock after another victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, came forward in the wake of publicity of sex attacks.

He admitted five offences between January 1, 1974 and 1977 when the boy would have been between the ages of nine and 12 and when Carter was in his 20s.

Rachel Knight, prosecuting at Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court , said Carter ran the grocery store at High Street, Old Llantrisant and was also involved in the local cubs and scouts.

His victim would visit the shop and while alone in the shop with Carter he would be subjected to sexual acts.

He stopped going to the shop but did not reveal what had happened because he didn’t know it was wrong until later in life and it was only when in his 20s did he tell anyone he had been sexually abused.

Even then he decided not to say anything until now because of media coverage and the fact that sexual abuse was now more widely talked about.

“He said it concerned him that what he [Carter] did to him may still be happening with other children,” said Ms Knight.

John Ryan, defending, said that Carter, now retired and disabled, wanted help and had previously named boys he had abused because he wanted a “clean slate” but had not remembered this particular lad.

Judge Richard Twomlow imposed a three-year community order with a sex offender programme and said that Carter, now living at Melton Road, Crumpsall, Manchester, would not have received any more than seven years had these offences come to light in 2003.