A LOTTERY winner from Worcestershire who sexually abused children more than 20 years ago has been ordered to pay his victims a total of £60,000 compensation.

Steven Maund, who scooped a £300,000 jackpot, admitted seven specimen counts of indecent assault and buggery on six victims - the youngest being four-years-old.

They were molested in a shed and in a bedroom at Tenbury Wells, from 1975, but Maund, who was born in the town, was not arrested until August, last year.

Judge David McEvoy QC said Maund had £100,000 of his winnings left and ordered him to pay each victim £10,000 for the "filthy experiences" they had been forced to endure.

He also jailed Maund, aged 42, now of Coronation Road, Nelson, near Burnley, Lancashire, for 10 years and ordered him to pay £847 prosecution costs and register as a sex offender for life.

The judge told him: "You have done untold damage to these victims which has affected their daily lives.

"These were acts for your own sexual gratification and they have had to bottle up these memories for far too long.

"Although you are willing to compensate them, no amount of money can do that adequately. You have not shown whole-hearted contrition."

David Iles, prosecuting, described how a four-year-old girl was groped by Maund on his lap after he had been drinking.

He enticed the same girl into a shed by pretending it was a game, then threatened her with a piece of wood when she tried to resist his advances.

Another girl of eight was fondled in the shed and Maund put a piece of coal into her mouth to stop her screaming out.

Mr Iles said the most serious assault was on a boy aged about nine in the early 1980s. Maund committed buggery on him and left him in considerable pain.

The defendant warned his victims - two boys and four girls - that his behaviour was "our secret" and they kept their ordeals quiet for many years.

After his arrest Maund, a man of previous good character, confessed he was sexually excited by children and said their accounts were probably correct, although he could not remember.

Defence counsel Martin Hackett said his guilty pleas had saved the victims "having to re-live terrible events".

Maund had expressed some regret and was willing to say sorry, although he did not know what words to use.

Mr Hackett said at the time of the offences he was drinking heavily and was experiencing difficulties in his adult relationships.

After his move to Lancashire, he tempered his drinking.

He also tried to hold down a job but had been unemployed since last year.