Army Cadet leader jailed for nine years for sex offences against boys

Four victims were aged between 13 and 16

Raymond Waller, 69, was sentenced to nine years in jailed for sex offences against boys between 1981 and 1991. (Met Police )

A former Army Cadet leader has been jailed for nine years after pleading guilty to child sex offences committed between 1981 and 1991.

Raymond Waller, 69, was sentenced at Harrow Crown Court on Monday on six counts of indecent assault and three counts of gross indecency.

His four victims, who he met while he was an Army Cadet leader in Barnet,  were aged between 13 and 16 at the time of the offences.

The sexual offences mostly took place in his flat or on cadet trips.

In one instance, Mr Waller even started a relationship with one boy’s mother as a means to get access to him.

Mr Waller had pleaded guilty to the charges at the end of September, three years after some of the offences were first reported to the Metropolitan Police.  

Officers tracked him down to Holland, where he was living at the time. He initially denied the charges and claimed he did not remember the victims.

Detective Constable Keith Kimberley, from the Met Police’s North Area BCU Safeguarding team, said: “I am grateful to the men who came forward to report the abuse carried out by Waller.

“They were forced to relive their trauma in order that he could finally face justice, and my hope is that they can now move on fully with their lives.

“Waller is now in prison and cannot cause harm to any further young, vulnerable people. No matter when offences took place, victims can trust that they will be listened to."