Keswick pensioner who groomed and raped schoolgirls jailed
A CUMBRIAN farmer who repeatedly raped one schoolgirl and molested another after grooming both with gifts of sweets and cigarettes has been handed a 20-year jail term for the historical crimes. The female raped by Raymond Harrison several decades ago told police as she made disclosures as an adult many years later of a threat he gave her, adding: “He said nobody was to know because it had to be our secret.” Harrison, now aged 69, denied 12 charges: eight involving the repeated rape, indecent assaults and acts of indecency with one girl; and four relating to indecent assaults on the ...