A criminal defence solicitor who sexually abused clients for almost 30 years has been branded an 'evil monster' by his victims.
Alan Harris, 72, targeted the young and vulnerable when they were in police holding cells - knowing they would not be believed.
Victims, some of whom were as young as 14 at the time, were left in tears in court on Tuesday as they told how he had had caused them lifelong 'emotional and psychological trauma'.
They said Harris, who they said they should have been able to trust - deserved 'nothing less than hell' for his depraved acts, which were carried out at a time when they were most vulnerable.
One told him he was 'scared and desperate and needed your help and you preyed on me'.
Harris was convicted of five counts of indecent assault and five sexual assaults against seven victims dating from 1988 to 2015.
The majority of the offences, against six men and one woman, happened during legal consultations at Plymouth Magistrates' Court and the Devon city's Charles Cross police station, with a separate incident in a car near the police station.
Harris was found to have touched the victims necks, shoulders, thighs and crotch and some victims saw him 'ejaculate'.
At his sentencing hearing at Winchester Crown Court, Hants, on Tuesday, clients who were molested by now-retired Harris looked him in the eye as they read out their victim impact statements.
