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60 year old man jailed for seven years over historic abuse of schoolboys

Philip Watson has been jailed for seven years after being found guilty of four indecent assaults against three schoolboys in Sunderland and Northumberland during the nineteen nineties.

2026-09-02Tyne & Wear Crime

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