A 29-year-old man has been jailed for the “vile and persistent” sexual abuse of a young girl carried out more than a decade ago.

Bradford Crown Court yesterday heard Robert Neale-Day, of Kirkgate Road, Shipley, committed acts of indecent assault and gross indecency on the girl an estimated 15 times over a three-year period starting in 1998, when she was under 13.

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