A children's rights activist has been jailed for six years and eight months for sexually abusing a boy in the 1960s. Peter Newell was the former co-ordinator of the Association for the Protection of All Children charity. The 77-year-old from Wood Green, north London, was sentenced last month at Blackfriars Crown Court.
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