ROT IN HELL
‘Wicked and unrepentant’ paedophile, 78, who raped and sexually abused two girls dies of cancer in jail
by Andy GardnerA 'wicked and unrepentant' paedophile who abused two girls in incidents nearly three decades apart has died in jail.
Former soldier Roger Lee, 78, passed away in a hospice days after being transferred from Risley jail, in Cheshire.
He had been suffering from cancer.
A Prison Service spokesperson said: "“HMP Risley prisoner Roger Lee died in a hospice on 26 May.
"The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman has been informed.”
Lee, who was jailed in 2016, had been receiving palliative care at St Rocco's Hospice, in Warrington, Cheshire.
The paedophile tried to molest the first child in the 1980s, before raping and sexually assaulting the second youngster in the 2000s.
During his trial it was heard how the pensioner, who served in the Army for 22 years, left his victims with severe psychological harm.
The first girl was 11 when she saw Lee watching pornography on TV.
He invited her to sit beside him and tried to make her perform a sex act on him, but she resisted his advances.
She told the court she was consumed by guilt about not speaking out at the time, because if she had, the second victim may not have been targeted.
The victim said: “The decision I made then will haunt me to the end of my life.”
She now struggles to trust people and has experienced anxiety and flashbacks.
Lee sexually assaulted his second victim when she was 12, after she too saw him watching porn.
He raped her before apologising for his behaviour, which Judge Flewitt said was “hollow and meaningless”.
He then assaulted the girl again on another occasion.
The victim told the court the abuse “destroyed her life”.
Lee, from Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, initially admitted only the rape.
He later pleaded guilty to indecency with a child and sexually assaulting a child under the age of 13 on the day of a trial.