A "DISGUSTING and violent" serial child rapist looks set to die in prison after he was jailed for 20 years.

Malcolm Carney, 75, leaned on his wooden walking stick in the dock as Bradford's top judge told him: "One wonders if you will ever enjoy another day of freedom.

"You, at long last, will have to pay for the terrible things you did to those girls."

Carney, of Langlands Road, Cottingley, Bingley, was yesterday convicted by a jury at Bradford Crown Court of 24 sexual offences, spanning 15 years.

The unanimous guilty verdicts included eight allegations of rape and 16 of indecent assault, dating back to the 1980s.

Carney's wife and daughter, who were there throughout the trial, were visibly upset when he was convicted.

His two victims, now middle aged women, had at last got justice, the Recorder of Bradford, Judge Roger Thomas QC said.

Carney's barrister, Rebecca Young, said he was in very poor health.

The retired Continental coach driver, who was remanded into custody during the five day trial, suffers from angina and attended court in a wheelchair before he was locked up.

"He is likely to see out his days in prison," Miss Young said.

During the trial, the jury heard that the two women victims finally resolved to go to the police last year.

They revealed how Carney physically abused them, by beating them with his belt, and sexually abused them on numerous occasions.

One told how he sexually molested her on her wedding day, groping her down her bridal dress and offering her £2,000 not to go ahead with the ceremony.

Carney denied any wrong doing, accusing the women from the witness box of telling lies and saying they had made up stories about other men sexually abusing them.

In her victim personal statement, one of the victims said Carney had robbed her of her childhood.

His despicable crimes left her feeling ashamed and dirty and she still suffered panic attacks when she saw him in the supermarket.

The second woman described his crimes as "unforgivable and downright sickening".

Judge Thomas said the women's brave and powerful evidence was proof of the lasting harm child sex abusers did to their victims.

But he told Carney he had caused the women real, deep and irreparable damage.

"The damage that you have done by your own nasty, selfish, disgusting and violent conduct is there to be seen," Judge Thomas said.

He als ordered Carney to sign on the sex offender register for an indefinite period.