FORMER Llandybie man currently serving a 17-year jail sentence for child sex offences has been jailed for life after he was found guilty of raping a young girl in the 1990s.

Philip Adrian Morgan, aged 46, has been told he must serve a minimum of six years after also being convicted of 12 separate offences of sexual assault.

Morgan, who refused to take part in the latest trial, was convicted of sexually assaulting a girl when she was aged about nine and of later raping her.

The fresh crimes came to light after the Guardian revealed in September 2013, that Morgan had been jailed for committing similar offences against a different girl.

At Morgan's trial it was revealed that his victim had been told of Morgan's initial conviction by a friend reading the Guardian.

“He did the same to me when I was a child,” she said.

She then made a formal complaint to police and Morgan, by then behinds bars, was arrested again.

He denied the accusations during police interviews but refused to attend Swansea crown court for his trial.

On the first day he stayed in a cell below the court room and for the rest of the trial refused to leave his prison cell.

Judge Huw Davies, sitting at Swansea Crown Court, also made Morgan subject of a barring order, preventing him from ever working with children.

He was also placed indefinitely on the sex offenders registers.

The sentences will run concurrently.