A former prison officer has been found to have sexually assaulted a young inmate more than 50 years ago.
Alexander Flavell was also found to have committed misconduct in a public office during his time at Medomsley Detention Centre.
Last month, it was decided that the 89-year-old was unfit to stand trial but a jury would still rule on the facts of the charges that he faced, including two charges of assault, one of indecent assault and another of buggery.
Flavell, who is suffering from Dementia, was not convicted of buggery or two of the assaults while the jury were unable to come to an agreement on a third charge of assault.
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The prison guard's trial was the last in a long-running series of prosecutions of former officers who served at the County Durham detention centre.
The prison guard's co-accused Ian Nicholson died on December 26, 2021.
Mr Nicholson faced a charge of misconduct in a public office, three counts of a serious sexual offence and four counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
Jurors had heard how Flavell and another prison officer had 'greased up' an inmate after forcing him to strip naked before they shoved him backwards and forwards through a serving hatch in the centre's kitchen area.
Judge Howard Crowson discharged the jury and gave the Crown Prosecution Service two weeks to decide what to do about the outstanding assault charge.
He said the only likely outcome due to the defendant's ill health was an absolute discharge.
Flavell will be sentenced in his absence at a later date.
Neville Husband, a disgraced Christian minister, was jailed for eight years in 2003 after being convicted of a series of sickening sex attacks on teenage boys.
The pervert tied up and blindfolded one of his young victims and took vile pornographic photographs of him after ordering him to get undressed.
Reverend Husband used his former employment as a prison officer to induce "terror and extreme fear" in to young inmates so they would keep quiet about their horrifying ordeals.
The attacks happened at the detention centre in Consett, County Durham, in the 70s and 80s where Husband spent 17 of his 27 years with the prison service.
In 2009, 12 former inmates who were attacked by Neville Husband are sharing £528,000 in compensation from the Ministry of Justice.
Husband died the following year.
And in 2019, Brian Greenwell, 71, was sentenced to two years and six months in prison and Alan Bramley, 70, was given a sentence of 18 months.
Both men were found guilty of one count of misconduct in a public office, reflecting consistent violence they inflicted on boys at the detention centre, near Consett, in the 1970s and 1980s.
In the same year, three other prison officers who led a brutal regime at a "hell hole" jail where traumatised young inmates were treated "like animals" have been locked up for a total of 13 and a half years.
Christopher Onslow, 73, John McGee, 75, and Kevin Blakely, 67, were jailed for a total of 13 years and five months.
Onslow - a physical training instructor who "exploited his position of authority in a consistently sadistic and brutal fashion" - received an eight and a half year sentence.
John McGee was jailed for two years and ten months.
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One of his victims was a teenage inmate, who was 5ft 5ins tall and weighed just eight and a half stone, on his first day in Medomlsey.
Burly McGee ordered him to stand to attention but then punched him in the face, bursting his nose.
Kevin Blakely was jailed for two years and nine months and was told he had been part of a "culturally brutal regime".
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