A PAEDOPHILE ex-referee has been jailed once again after being found guilty of groping a young boy 35 years ago.

Michael Jalland, who also ran youth football teams in Bournemouth, claimed his victim's story was "drivel" during a four-day trial at Bournemouth Crown Court.

But jurors took just over an hour to unanimously convict him of two counts of indecent assault against a male person in either 1979 or 1980.

He was found not guilty of a third count.

Jalland, 61, of Belle Vue Road, Southbourne assaulted the boy - then aged 11 or 12 - twice on one occasion.

Jurors heard that the victim, who is now in his 40s, confronted the defendant after seeing him in the street in Boscombe last year.

He had not reported the offences at the time or told anyone what had happened.

It was heard that Jalland used to hang around Kings Park, watching him playing football with his friends, and that he befriended them.

As a result of the offences against him, the victim has suffered from flashbacks, and told the court: "We all saw him as a nice guy.

"I had seen him so often I considered him to be safe.

"It has been buried deep. I feel angry and guilty that I had not come forward and maybe stopped him."

Mitigating before the sentence, Nick Robinson asked for "as much mercy as appropriate in the circumstances".

But Judge John Harrow said Jalland had forced his victim to "live with that for all those decades since [the offences took place].

"[The victim] is clearly a damaged person," he added, sentencing the defendant to four years behind bars.

Jalland, who shook his head as the verdicts were read aloud by the foreman, was previously locked up indefinitely after being branded a danger to the public in 2008.

At that time, he had been convicted of three offences against boys he met in pool and snooker halls.

He was ordered to serve a minimum of two years before a parole board could decide when he was safe to return to the community, but served a total of four before his release.

A probation report assessed Jalland as being a high risk of causing harm to children and sexual reconviction.

Jalland was first convicted at Bournemouth Crown Court in 1998 of indecently assaulting boys aged seven, eight and 11 - he offered one victim 50p to pacify him.

He was living in Boscombe Crescent at the time, and was jailed for 15 months and thrown out of his job refereeing local games for Hampshire Football Association.

During the trial, police told the judge he was seen near playing fields and swimming pools.

He was also jailed for another two years for committing more offences while serving part of his sentence living in the community, in Southampton Street, Southampton, in 2000.

He met an 11-year-old boy playing pool and indecently assaulted him after luring him into a public lavatory.