Richard Burrows, 81, 'ruined countless lives' as he systematically abused 24 boys across Cheshire and the Midlands between 1968 and 1995, a judge said today.
Richard Burrows, a former boarding school housemaster and scout leader, had admitted 43 offences and denied 54 others, which jurors convicted him of today.
Richard Burrows, 80, spent nearly three decades on the run in Thailand to escape child abuse charges and told Chester Crown Court it was a 'good place to sail'.
Rob Burrows, 41, was hooked up to a hospital ventilator after developing pneumonia as he was unable to communicate and paralysed by motor neurone disease.
Richard Burrows, now 80, was arrested at Heathrow Airport last March after trying to re-enter the UK from Thailand where he had been living under a false name, a jury was told.