THE victim of a paedophile who met young boys through churches told him: "In my head, I locked you up and threw away the key some time ago."

David Everett targeted two children in the early 2000s after supporting choirs at Christchurch Priory and St Peter's Church in Bournemouth.

As reported in the Daily Echo, he was last year jailed for six years and eight months after admitting the abuse of a former member of the Priory Church Choir while serving as a conductor.

After his photograph appeared in the paper, a second victim came forward.

Everett, formerly of Hankinson Road in Bournemouth, appeared before a judge on Tuesday morning via prison video link. He admitted gross indecency and engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child.

His second victim, who cannot be identified, read an impact statement to the defendant. In it, he said Everett had behaved in an abusive way towards him for several years.

"You were always diminishing my parents. Right from the start, you said they treated me like a child," he said.

"You just wanted to control me, to feel a sense of power over me."

The victim said the defendant and he had discussed Sir Walter Scott's poem Marmion, which features the line: "Oh what a tangled web we weave / When first we practice to deceive."

"You were the spider, spinning a web of deceit," he said.

Everett and the victim were involved in a "strange, warped relationship". Everett would drive to the victim's home at night to see him through his bedroom window. One Christmas, the victim ran outside to exchange gifts with the defendant.

The two first met when the victim joined a choir at St Peter's Church. Although Everett was not the conductor, he was an "active supporter" of the group, it was heard.

The victim's mother also read a statement aloud in the courtroom.

"I put my trust in you and the church," she said.

"You have let me down in the worst possible way."

Everett was convicted of five counts of indecent assault on a male under the age of 14 and one of gross indecency at Reading Crown Court in 1992. He was sentenced to nine months in prison, suspended for two years.

Last year, he pleaded guilty to six counts of indecent assault on a boy aged under 16. He was sentenced to a prison term by Judge Peter Crabtree OBE.

The same judge sentenced Everett, 58, at Bournemouth Crown Court this week.

"It is clear you had considerable control over [the victim], encouraging a dependency on you and manipulating his emotions," Judge Crabtree said.

"You deprived him of what he should have been experiencing as a youngster during his teenage years.

"In many respects, you deprived him of a childhood."

Everett's sentence was increased to eight years and five months in prison. He will also be the subject of an indefinite sexual harm prevention order.