A pervert who sexually abused a boy is facing a jail sentence after being convicted of four offences.

Roger Hearsey, of Beagles Wood Road, Tunbridge Wells, denied rape, causing a child to engage in sexual activity and two offences of sexual assault.

Prosecutor Deborah Charles said Hearsey, now 68, raped the victim on one occasion.

He performed a sex act on the boy after telling him to pull down his trousers and pants.

“At that age he didn’t know what to do,” Miss Charles told a jury at Maidstone Crown Court. “Afterwards, Mr Hearsey behaved as if nothing had happened. He made it seem as though it was normal.”

Hearsey molested the victim and got him to touch him sexually. He also showed the boy pornographic videos of adults having sex.

“You may think it was an attempt to make this sort of activity seem normal,” said Miss Charles. “He told him in no uncertain terms what to do. He said: ‘It is our secret. Nobody needs to know.’”

The abuse stopped after Hearsey had a heart attack in January 2010.

The boy wept and told his mother what had been happening when she noticed he was being moody.

“He said he had tried to forget about it,” said Miss Charles. “He found it difficult to talk about it so he wrote it down.

“The Crown say the defendant preyed on a vulnerable young boy and tried to ensure he didn’t tell anybody.”

Hearsey denied any sexual contact with the boy. He admitted having porn videos but denied showing them to the victim.

Hearsey is due to be sentenced today.