A MAN has been found guilty of a series of sexual offences against a terrified schoolboy.

Kieran Bunday threatened to kill his victim if he told anyone, Bournemouth Crown Court was told.

He also threatened the boy with an air rifle, pinned him against a wall, told him he had a knife, and repeatedly punched him before launching a frightening campaign of abuse which went on for several years.

Bunday, 24, who now lives in Forester Road, Blackfield, in the New Forest, carried out the crimes in Bournemouth.

He was found guilty of four charges of rape, two of sexual assault, two of causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent and one of indecency with a child. A jury heard the victim had suffered depression, nightmares and incidents of self-harm.

Prosecuting, Simon Jones told the court the boy “finally cracked and told his mother what had happened to him” last year.

Bunday is due to be sentenced on February 24.