Sex trial ordeal: victims call for protection
Cooke, who went by the broadcast name of ‘Captain Cooke’ and was known by local children as the ‘Cookie Monster’, received a 10-year jail sentence for a total of 42 indecent assaults on young girls in the 1970s.
It was the second trial for the 70-year-old father of 11 after he successfully appealed a 2002 conviction for multiple offences against four girls.