A Pembroke man convicted of child sex offences has been jailed for 12 years this afternoon (Friday).

Byron Scarfe, aged 55, had denied assaulting two girls when they were aged nine and 11.

He was found guilty by a jury at Swansea crown court and today was back in the same court room to be sentenced by Judge Huw Davies.

Judge Davies told Scarfe, of Rowlands Way, that he had shown no remorse for his offending or any insight into the effects it had had on the girls concerned.

Judge Davies said he noted that Scarfe still denied the offences, despite the verdicts.

Scarfe was convicted of raping the first girl and sexually assaulting her by various means on other occasions.

Jim Davis, prosecuting, said one of the incidents had been witnessed by a woman who was so shocked she hit him twice.

But at the time she accepted his explanation that he had walked into a room to find her already naked and had not actually touched her.

Mr Davis said Scarfe had asked the second girl if she had ever had “a real kiss” before putting his tongue in her mouth.

Mr Davis said it was the second girl who first told an adult what had happened. When that became known the allegations relating to the first girl came to light.

Judge Davies ordered Scarfe to register with the police as a sex offender until further notice. After his release from prison his access to young girls will be restricted.

He warned Scarfe that despite his claims that the accusations had been invented he was now “a marked man.”

Ian Wright, the barrister representing Scarfe, said his wife of more than 30 years was standing by him.