Victim of paedophile bus driver speaks of 'relief' at seeing him jailed two decades on

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A victim of a paedophile bus driver who abused three children has spoken of her relief at seeing him jailed two decades on.Naomi Gibson bravely spoke out to police when she was assaulted by predator Craig Wallace in a van during a family trip to the football when she was just 11.But there was not enough evidence to convict the fiend at the time and he went on to rape two other youngsters.Now Wallace, of East Kilbride, Lanarkshire, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison at the High Court in Glasgow.Mum-of-two Naomi, 31, who is waiving her right to anonymity in a bid to help other victims come forward, said: “I feel relief seeing him jailed.

It’s what he deserves to say the least.“But when they read out the charges in court and the extent of what he did to the other victims it was very upsetting to hear what he put them through.“I just think about those other two girls.

It’s scary to think if I had kept that secret that could have been me too.”Jurors convicted Wallace, now 41, of abusing three children over a period of 15 years last month.He had denied the three charges during trial but was convicted of lewd and libidinous conduct towards Naomi in his van in Hamilton, Lanarkshire.Wallace was further found guilty of raping a second girl at a house in the town.He was finally convicted of the sexual assault, attempted rape and rape of a final child in Douglas, Lanarkshire.Prosecutors stated the charges - all with unanimous verdicts - spanned between 2003 and 2018.Wallace was a close friend of Naomi’s dad and known to her before the attack as ‘uncle Craig’.He would accompany the family on trips to watch youth football matches at Hamilton Palace grounds and, in 2003, he took his chance when alone in Naomi’s dad’s van to