A Great Ormond Street Hospital porter who abuse boys throughout London has been jailed for life.

 

Paul Farrell, 55, stored a diary of threats and bribes used to hold one of his victims underneath control, Wood Green Crown Court heard.

Farrell admitted seventy six offences in opposition to eight victims, from 1985 to 2020. He have to spend at least 18 years in jail.

He used an region of the health facility for abuse however did no longer goal patients.

Prosecutors linked Farrell, of Camden, north London, to at least five hundred cases of abuse, though they estimate the actual determine is "likely to be in the thousands".

His 35-year marketing campaign of abuse protected tried rape, sexual assault of a baby below thirteen and making indecent pix of children.

Farrell, who pleaded responsible at a preceding hearing, acted as a babysitter to human beings he had befriended in order to obtain get entry to to their children.

He saved a diary of threats and bribes made to one of his victims, who was once aged 12 when the abuse began.

To quit the boy from telling every person about the attacks, Farrell hid a digicam in the boy's room.

Prosecutors stated Farrell had "groomed" the complete household to allow him to abuse the boy and his two youthful brothers, putting reminders to purchase participants of the household affords or to provide himself as a babysitter.

Another victim, who was once 5 years historic when the abuse began, instructed Farrell in court: "Innocent teens like me and my brother will be profoundly scarred by way of your movements for the rest of our lives.