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A car will have to be moved from outside a court after its owner was jailed for 23 years.

Sick child molester Allan Malcolm Dyche kept a "memory box" full of sick mementos of his offending hidden in a bedside drawer.

The 67-year-old of Peel Street, Abergele was found guilty by a jury of 18 historic sex charges, including rape.

He was arrested in 2017 and as a result police found a "key piece of evidence" in the box he kept.

A DNA test matched the samples to a victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons.

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Dyche had been on bail during the five day trial at Caernarfon Crown Court and was seen driving to court each day.

Last Friday he parked the vehicle outside the building and walked into the building to await the jury's verdicts.

When the verdict was delivered the judge decided to proceed immediately to sentence him, leaving the vehicle parked outside.

There are no parking restrictions immediately outside the court building but parking is limited.

A court source said: "He was always here early and could find a parking space outside the building."

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At the end of his trial the former joiner and cabinet maker was told by Caernarfon crown court Judge Huw Rees that the box illustrated his "overwhelming perversion".

The court heard Dyche had ruined the life of one of his victims, with a second saying they could "never see their life being the same again".

The main target of his perverted sexual demands had been too scared to speak out.

In an impact statement read to the court by prosecutor Anna Pope, they said: “I always had to hide a secret. I wanted to die inside.

“I have wanted to speak out for many years. How could I stay quiet about what happened to me?

“I will always have painful, unhappy memories.”