Overview
- A Prisons and Probation Ombudsman report confirms that Almond, 80, died from brain cancer in a hospice on September 14, 2024 while serving his sentence at HMP Liverpool.
- He received a 12-year prison term on February 21, 2020 for sexually abusing four children who were all under 14 during the 1980s and 1990s.
- Police arrested him in 2017 and prosecutors charged him with eight counts of indecent assault and four counts of indecency with a child, and a jury convicted him after he denied the offences.
- The court ordered lifetime placement on the UK Sex Offenders Register, a system that requires offenders to report personal details to police for monitoring.
- A female victim told the court the abuse left her with chronic depression, anxiety, self-loathing, and PTSD, describing years of struggle that began in her teens.