A PENSNETT pensioner who carried out sex attacks on a young schoolgirl has been put behind bars for four years.

Paul Fiander was further ordered to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life and made the subject of an indefinite Sex Offenders Protection Order.

Judge Nicholas Webb told the 65-year-old his victim had been vulnerable adding: “It is unknown what effect your actions will have on her emotional development.”

He said Fiander, of Blewitt Street, who acts as a carer for his partner could be given no credit because he had denied any wrongdoing.

Fiander had pleaded not guilty to two charges of sexual assault on a young child but he was found guilty after the jury retired to consider the evidence at the end of his trial.

Laura Hobson, defending Fiander, a man of previous good character, told Wolverhampton Crown Court he had been left “devastated” by the proceedings.

She said people he knew still found it hard to believe he had been convicted on the charges and they would have no hesitation leaving their children in his care.