In 1966, aged about 29, the sentence was up to 18 months’ jail for permitting a boy to do an indecent act on him. In October 1967 he turned 30, and that year too he was caught, as he was in 1968. He pleaded guilty to seven charges of indecent assault, involving five boys aged 12 to 14. Three of the boys were taken for a ride in Vincent’s car, just once each, when he masturbated in front of them and “interfered with their private parts”. The other two boys received the same abuse as the other three, plus one was kissed, and the other performed and received oral sex, and Vincent simulated intercourse with him.