A Buddhist meditation master has been given an eight-year sentence after admitting to sexually abusing a three-year-old girl at her home in Brighton over six years, four decades ago, following an investigation by Sussex Police safeguarding detectives.

Koji Takeuchi, now 80, of Trent Lane, North Clifton near Newark, Notts, was sentenced at Hove Crown Court on Friday 30 October, after admitting sexual assaults on the girl, then aged between three and nine in her own home between 1975 and 1981.

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