A Devon pensioner has been jailed for 18 years after being convicted of repeatedly raping two girls.
Evil George Paskins was found guilty by a jury on his 81st birthday of sexually abusing three girls.
One of the girls was regularly raped from the ages of three and four until the age of ten or eleven.
Another was repeatedly raped between the ages of eight and 11, the court heard. The third girl was indecently assaulted.
Recorder Paul Dunkels said Paskins was a "bully" who used violence and threats to make sure the girls never complained. His 16-year campaign of abuse started almost 50 years ago in 1965, but the victims only came forward to the police in 2013.
The judge said: "Undoubtedly the two girls who were raped suffered serious psychological trauma. One of the girls was extremely young when you began to rape her."
All three victims, two via videolink from Australia, bravely spoke of the casual and perverse brutality they suffered at the hands of Paskins up until 1981.
One described during one assault that Paskins stopped to make a cup of tea before coming back to continue the abuse.
Another complainant said Paskins covered her face with a comic while he abused her.
Former carpenter and joiner Paskins was found guilty on all seven counts he faced after a week-long trial.
Neither he nor his wife at the back of the court showed much reaction when the foreman announced the verdicts.
Paskins, who used to live in St Budeaux and Ernesettle, had sworn on the "Holy Bible" that he never touched the girls.
He claimed that the women should be punished by the courts for making false claims.
Recorder Dunkels jailed him for 18 years on each of the rapes, to be served concurrently.
He was given another two years concurrent for indecent assault of the third girl and 12 months for indecency with her.
Paskins can expect to serve nine years behind bars, taking him to his 90th birthday.
Paskins, now living in Hill Park Terrace, Paignton, had pleaded not guilty to three counts of rape of one girl between 1965 and 1977. He also denied raping the second girl three times between 1970 and 1975.
Paskins finally pleaded not guilty to the indecent assault of the third girl and indecency with that child between 1972 and 1981.
