'Evil' paedophile receives further 14 years for historic offences

A paedophile murderer has been branded "evil incarnate" by a judge after his latest convictions for abusing children.

Robert Ewing, 64, was jailed for life in 2015 and ordered to serve a minimum of 33 years for the murder of 15-year-old Blackpool schoolgirl Paige Chivers.

Ewing exploited the vulnerable teenager for his sexual gratification and then decided to silence her when she threatened to go to the authorities.

He had already served a 12-month jail sentence in 1995 for gross indecency with a teenage girl, whom he also indecently assaulted, and did not want to go back to jail.

Last week, a jury at Preston Crown Court found him guilty of indecently assaulting a young boy in the Hereford area in the early 1990s.

He was also found guilty of child cruelty offences against the same boy and a young girl.

Jurors were not told about Ewing's conviction for murdering Paige.

On Friday, Judge Philip Parry sentenced Ewing, formerly of Kincraig Place, Blackpool, to 14 years in prison for the latest offences and labelled him a "monster" and "evil incarnate", said Lancashire Police.

Paige's body has still not been found since she went missing from her home in Bispham on August 23 2007 and later the same day was spotted at a bus stop with the defendant.

Three tiny spots of blood belonging to Paige were found by police in the inner hallway of Ewing's flat, while the defendant had been heard in a covert police recording saying:

Following the sentencing, Detective Chief Inspector Becky Smith, of Blackpool Police, said: