Two Derbyshire brothers, Bryan and Ian Wren, have been sentenced to over two decades in prison for a "sustained and determined" campaign of sexual abuse against young girls.

Derby Crown Court heard that the brothers, now both in their 70s, repeatedly touched the victims sexually, giving them cash and sweets to maintain their silence. The victims, now adults, described feeling "utterly destroyed" by the abuse, which occurred over several decades.

Bryan Wren, who had previously been imprisoned in 2017 for sexually assaulting a four-year-old girl, was sentenced to 13 years and four months. Judge Shaun Smith KC stated, "You destroyed (one of your) victim's lives, completely and utterly destroyed it. You could obviously live with what you did because it did not stop you abusing another girl who was even younger in 2015 and for which you were sent to prison in 2017 and rightly so."

Ian Wren was sentenced to seven years for abusing a different underage victim. The judge said, "You might have put it behind you but it has stayed with her forever and will continue to do so even after your release. She stayed silent for 45 years and buried what happened to her so deep but then she gets the double whammy of finding out your brother had been doing things to the other victims at the same time."

One of the victims, bravely reading her impact statement, stated, "You may see this as historical, but it's not historical to me." Another victim said, "The abuse I suffered left me traumatised and not feeling worthy of life. I moved out of Derby to get a clean slate."

Both brothers were placed on the sex offender register for life and given lifetime sexual harm prevention orders.