A former Jackanory storyteller from Devon who taught in an Okehampton school has been jailed for a series of sexual assaults on a young boy nearly 60 years ago.John Earle, 87, who narrated two Jackanory stories in 1971 and presented programmes for youngsters in the 1960s and 1970s, was deputy headteacher at a school in Okehampton, Devon when he carried out the attacks on a boy there who was just nine when his ordeal began.At Exeter Crown Court today, Earle, who admitted six counts of indecent...
