Haverfordwest businessman Kenneth Waters is in jail tonight after he was found guilty of more offences off indecently assaulting an underage girl.

Waters, aged 71, of Highfield Manor, Fishguard Road, now stands convicted of seven offences of indecent assault, all involving the same girl and all dating back more than 10 years.

Waters had stood trial earlier this year when he was found guilty of three offences.

But the jury at Swansea crown court could not agree on the remainder of the charges against him and a retrial of those charges took place this week.

Today (Friday), the jury returned majority verdicts of guilty in relation to four offences and cleared Waters of one charge.

Judge Paul Thomas said the starting point for each of the offences was a jail term of five years.

He withdrew Waters' bail and remanded him into custody until a sentencing hearing next Friday.

The jury had heard how Waters, who ran the Home Electonics store in Snowdrop Lane, Haverfordwest, had befriended the girl but later taken advantage of her.

She told how Waters once drove her to Newgale beach and took off his trousers. He told her take off her own trousers, which she did, and Waters said he wanted to have sexual intercourse with her.

But "a car load of girls" arrived and Waters drove off with his trousers still round his ankles.

The victim said that despite her age at the time Waters had given her money, alcohol and gifts of perfume.

She agreed that years later she became determined to see Waters prosecuted and secretly recorded a telephone conversation in which Waters appeared to apologise for his behaviour.

Waters claimed she had tried to blackmail him by threatening to go to the police and making false allegations unless he paid her "lots of money."

He said she telephoned him more than 80 times and he "stupidly said sorry to whatever she wanted me to just to shut her up."

Waters denied that there had been any sexual contact between them.