‘The people he mingled with don’t know what he’s like, but they’ll know now’
Herbie Balmer thought he’d got away with his disturbing assaults on his niece, which started when she was five and continued for six years.
But he was sentenced at Antrim Crown Court this week to a six-and-a-half year jail term for a litany of historic offences committed 40 years ago against Valerie and another victim.
He’ll serve a year on licence following his release and will be subject to a Sexual Offences Prevention Order for five years.
Valerie, from Ballymena, has waived her right to anonymity to expose the horror of her uncle’s crimes, committed in her family home and in his family…