A MAN is awaiting sentence after being found guilty of sexually assaulting a schoolboy.

Gordon Davies, 55, was convicted of two counts of indecent assault by a Burnley Crown Court jury after a three-day trial.

Judge David Pirie bailed him until June 28 for a pre-sentence report.

Davies, of Eagle Street, Nelson, was cleared of two allegations of a serious sexual offence. He had denied all the allegations.

Davies' victim, who is now a student, told the court how the defendant had told him not to tell anybody what happened. He said he had later confided in a friend, who advised him to tell somebody.

He then told his aunt and mother, but his father was not informed until several months later. He had not wanted to make a complaint to the police.

The boy's mother had said she had not "pushed it" when he did not want to make a formal complaint.

She told the court her son had been through enough of an ordeal.

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