A 55-year-old man has been jailed for five years for sexually abusing two little girls almost four decades ago.

Sentencing Jimmy Pemberton, whose parents ran a hotel and public house in central Bradford, the judge told him: “This is a case that needs to finally, finally come to an end.”

Pemberton (pictured) was convicted by a jury at Bradford Crown Court yesterday afternoon of all 17 offences alleged against him, including an attempted rape, indecent assault and indecency with a child.

His barrister, Ken Green, asked the Recorder of Bradford, Judge Roger Thomas QC, to delay sentence to allow Pemberton to put his affairs in order.

But the judge said he would refuse bail and it was time to bring the case to a close.

Mr Green said Pemberton, an electrician of Glenlea Close, Pudsey, had led an unblemished life since the mid- 1970s.

As he was being sentenced under the 1956 Sex Offences Act, he would serve two thirds of his sentence behind bars instead of the half spent in prison nowadays.

During the trial, Pemberton’s victims, now women in their forties, told how he abused them at the hotel over a period of about 18 months when he was 17 or 18.

The women said he told them to strip off and pose indecently on his bed while he took photographs of them on a Polaroid camera.

He gave them little thank-you gifts after abusing them, including sweets, pens, books and the used flashbulbs from the camera.

Pemberton threatened the elder girl that she would be locked up if she told anyone what was happening to her.

He kept the younger girl quiet by telling her he would go to prison if she talked about what he was doing to her.

The older girl was dragged to an attic room at the hotel and locked in while Pemberton sexually assaulted her.

On one occasion, he tried to rape her after pinning her down on his bed.

Judge Thomas read moving personal statements from the two women relating how the abuse had affected them during their lives since.