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The brother of TV presenter Phillip Schofield has been jailed for 12 years for sexually abusing a boy.
Timothy Schofield was found guilty in April of 11 sexual offences involving a child between 2016 and 2019.
Following the verdict, the 54-year-old was sacked from his job as a civilian worker for Avon and Somerset Police.
Phillip Schofield said after the conviction: “As far as I am concerned, I no longer have a brother.”
At Schofield’s sentencing hearing at Bristol Crown Court on Friday, the victim said in a statement he felt “trapped in a loop of fear and anxiety” as a result of the abuse.
Utterly obsessed’
Passing sentence, Mrs Justice Cutts said: “You exploited [the victim’s] innocence at this stage of his life for your own sexual gratification.
“It was wrong on every level for you to behave as you did.
“He felt forced to do what you wanted, trapped and unable to escape. He felt he couldn’t tell anyone and did not do so for many years.
“You took away his ability to be the teenager he should have been – carefree, relaxed, happy. It is clear to me that you became utterly obsessed…
