The brother of This Morning star Phillip Schofield has been found guilty of sexually abusing a teenage boy over a period of three years.Timothy Schofield, 54, was charged with 11 sexual offences involving a child between October 2016 and October 2019.
A jury at Exeter Crown Court found him guilty of all counts with a majority of 10-2 after more than five-and-a-half hours of deliberation.
He denied the charges but was convicted of three counts of causing a child to watch sexual activity, three of engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child, three of causing a child to engage in sexual activity and two of sexual activity with a child.
Schofield, a civilian police worker from Bath, told the jury he had watched pornography with the boy, who he claimed was aged over 16 at that time, and they had masturbated while sat apart, but denied performing sexual acts on the teenager.
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