A retired police chief who won £375,000 in damages after being branded a paedophile by newspapers will be jailed Friday for historical sex crimes against two young boys.

Former superintendent Gordon Anglesea, 79, used his position and connections with authority to abuse his two victims, while running a "naughty boy school" in North Wales in the 1980s.

Anglesea escaped justice for three decades and sued for libel when he was linked to paedophiles in the press, but he was convicted last month after a trial of four counts of indecent assault against two teenage boys.

Father-of-five Anglesea, whose defence was funded by the Police Federation, was accused of having a "connection" to notorious paedophile John Allen, and others who were part of a paedophile ring in North Wales.

Anglesea ran a Home Office attendance centre in Wrexham in the 1980s, where boys convicted of petty crime would be given "short, sharp shock" of military-style physical training and marches.

He would "inspect" the parade, make the young boys do naked exercises, and loiter around the showers "with a smirk on his face".

Three of the assaults took place at the centre, against one boy who was "last back to the showers" after a cross-country run, the jury heard.

The other victim said he was first sexually assaulted by Allen while in care living at the Bryn Alyn home, where Anglesea became a regular visitor, according to witnesses.

Suspicions against Anglesea were raised when he was named as a regular visitor to children's homes, and who had resigned suddenly from his police job as questions about abuse in homes were growing.

Judge Geraint Walters granted Anglesea bail after he was convicted last month, but warned him he will face imprisonment when the sentence is passed on Friday.