Damages for victim abused by millionaire paedophile

A man who was sexually abused by paedophile millionaire William Goad more than 30 years ago was yesterday awarded six-figure damages against him.

Ray Zolla, 47, was a vulnerable teenager in the late 1970s when he was sexually abused and raped by William Goad, a Plymouth market trader who later became a millionaire businessman worth around £25 million.

Mr Goad was convicted in 2004 and received 14 concurrent life sentences for offences against 14 boys. It is believed he abused thousands of boys and he remains in prison.

The judge at the time described him as “a voracious, calculating and predatory paedophile over the past 40 years who has corrupted generations of boys aged between eight and 16 years”.