A former police superintendent has been found guilty of sexual offences against teenage boys in North Wales in the 1980s.

Gordon Anglesea, 79, was convicted at Mold Crown Court in Wales following a two-month trial.

The conviction comes more than a decade after he won a libel claim against media outlets that accused him of involvement with paedophiles.

Anglesea was found guilty on Friday on four counts of indecent assault against two boys - aged 14 or 15 at the time of the offence - between 1982 and 1987.

He was cleared of one count of buggery.

The jury heard accusations that Anglesea had "a connection" to notorious North Wales paedophile John Allen and others who were part of a paedophile ring operating in the region using children's homes as cover for their abuse.

Allen was convicted of child sex offences in 1995 and was jailed for life in 2014 for sexually abusing 18 boys and one girl in his care.

Anglsea, whose defence was funded by the Police Federation, was alleged to have abused a boy trafficked to him by Allen from a home.

Witnesses told the jury Anglesea had become a regular visitor to the Bryn Alyn Children's Home in Wrexham, which was run by Allen.

Suspicions about the former police officer had been raised in the media in the 1990s.

But he sued and was awarded £375,000 in libel damages plus costs in a joint action against the Independent on Sunday, The Observer, HTV and Private Eye.