Double murderer guilty of sexual assaults in 1990s

A man serving a life sentence for the murder of two young men has been found guilty of sexually assaulting four males.

Allan Grimson, a former Royal Navy petty officer, was sentenced in 2001 for the murders of Nicholas Wright and Sion Jenkins in the late 1990s.

The 66-year-old has now been convicted of counts including rape and indecent assault against four male complainants - including a 14-year-old boy - following a trial at Winchester Crown Court.

The court also heard that Grimson had considered killing two of the four males he assaulted.

The incidents, which took place between 1994 and 1999, included the rape and indecent assault of a teenage naval rating.

The court heard the double murderer told police a sailor, whom he is now convicted of sexually assaulting, was "lucky to be alive", and added: "If you're going to rape somebody, to get away with it, kill it."

On Monday, Grimson, of Hollesley, Suffolk, was found guilty of all 13 offences against four complainants.

The first and second complainant were indecently assaulted in 1994 and 1998 respectively.

The third was raped and indecently assaulted five times between February and November 1999.

The fourth, a 14-year-old boy, was indecently assaulted four times and photographed indecently between March and October 1999.

Grimson will be sentenced on 6 November.

He was branded a "serial killer in nature if not by number" by a judge when he was jailed for life more than 25 years ago, having told police that killing was "better than sex".

The non-commissioned officer had pleaded guilty to killing naval rating Nicholas Wright, 18, from Leicester, and barman Sion Jenkins, 20, from Newbury, Berkshire.

The bodies of the two victims were discovered four miles (6.44km) apart at the side of country lanes north of Winchester in December 1999.

The court heard how Grimson told police he "punched the air with triumph and gave out a roar" after bludgeoning Wright to death with a baseball bat.

Anthony Donne KC, prosecuting, told the court that Grimson, from North Shields, had met Wright on a fire-training course in Portsmouth in November 1997 – the same way he had met three of the complainants in the recent trial.

He said Grimson had explained that the killing had not been sexual, but one of control and power.

Donne then went on to describe the last moments of barman Jenkins, who was killed on the same day a year later in 1998.

He said Jenkins, 20, had become estranged from his family and ended up working as a barman after a brief spell of five weeks in the Royal Navy.

Grimson had threatened Jenkins with violence after he said no to sex with him, and the pair went on to have sex before he killed Jenkins when he wanted to leave the following day.

Grimson also admitted he had wanted to kill again, and told officers: "If I was not [in custody], it would probably happen again."