A CHILD rapist who 'ruined' his young victim's life with years of vile sexual abuse has been jailed.

Depraved paedophile Sabir Hussain, 42, of Nye Bevan Close, Oxford, had denied a string of charges alleging indecent assault as well as one count of rape.

The abuse was claimed to have covered a period of years throughout the 1990s.

At the end of his trial at Oxford Crown Court in February jurors reached unanimous verdicts on all counts after five hours and 35 minutes of deliberations.

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Hussain was found guilty of 13 counts of indecent assault and one count of rape.

He was cleared of one count of indecent assault.

At his sentencing hearing on Wednesday the same court heard how the repeated sexual abuse had had a 'profound, severe psychological impact.'

Reading from a victim personal statement prosecutor Nadia Chbat said the man now suffered problems with alcohol abuse, which he put down to what he suffered as a child.

The victim said: 'This man has ruined my life to the point I was hiding behind a different personality.

"I hope for one day [that] this is something I can move on from."

During the trial prosecutors detailed how Hussain had sexually abused his victim dozens of times from the age of 11 onwards.

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Prosecutors said that most of the abuse took place in Hussain’s attic bedroom, including the rape when the boy was around 14 years old.

It was detailed how the sexual assaults also saw Hussain, himself a teenager at the time, ‘pinning’ the boy against a wall in an alleyway and performing a sex act on him, as well as making him take a bath with him and ‘kissing his feet’.

Hussain took to the witness box to profess his innocence and claimed he was 'never alone' with his victim.

In mitigation at the sentencing hearing Martin Khoshdel said that his client had been of 'previous good character and otherwise exemplary good conduct.'

Sentencing, Judge Maria Lamb said that the victim had suffered 'enduring' harm following his ordeal.

She said: "You took advantage of him for your own sexual pleasure.

"You knew that what you were doing was wrong."

Hussain was jailed for a total of 11 years.