A former karate champion, 80, who was regarded as a 'hero' by his students has been found guilty of sexual assaults on teenage boys.
Andrew Sherry, a founding member of the Karate Union of Great Britain (KUGB), was accused of indecently assaulting one boy, under the age of 16, in the mid-1980s, and of four counts of sexual assaults on an older teenager in 2011 or 2012.
A trial at Liverpool Crown Court also heard he had allegedly propositioned two other male students in the 1990s.
On Friday, the former European and national champion was unanimously found guilty by a jury of all five counts.