An ex-Conservative councillor has been jailed for his sickening abuse of two young boys more than a decade ago. He has been sentenced to 12 years behind bars.
David Smith carried out a catalogue of sexual abuse on one of his victims whilst also exposed himself to another young boy in an attempt to get him to perform a sex act on him.
The 33-year-old spent £10,000 buying the silence of the first complainant as he showered him in gifts and took him on lavish shopping trips to Liverpool and Edinburgh.
The disgraced councillor also gave one of his victims cannabis before abusing him after the youngster passed out from smoking the drug.
Jurors decided that Smith had raped one of the victims on a number of occasions during his campaign of sexual abuse.
Teesside Crown Court heard how the former Middlesbrough councillor carried out the abuse on his victims over a four-year period.
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