Victims of Britain's worst paedophile reveal their torment

EVERY day, for the rest of their lives, they must live in the chilling shadow of Britain's worst paedophile. Their childhood raped and ripped apart by William Goad's perverted lust. Their future forever scarred.

Today two of the victims of evil millionaire Goad — last week caged for life after brutal attacks on thousands of children in a 40-year reign of terror — reveal how he set out to snare them with clinical precision.

Paul Wyatt and Matt Niles tell our crime reporter LUCY PANTON how the cunning monster used his chain of cheap stores to RECRUIT his innocent victims into part-time jobs. How he FOOLED parents into thinking he was just a kindly shopkeeper. How he GROOMED the children he targeted at his toy-filled lair. And how he BLACKMAILED victims into silence after violently raping them.

Matt's story

SHY, slighty-built Matthew Niles was just 14 when child sex monster William Goad brutally raped him in his bath.

Now 26, Matthew needs drugs to help him sleep at night. To wipe out the nightmares of abuse that end with him screaming himself awake.

"I was so glad he got life," says Matthew. "I hope he dies in prison. In America they chemically castrate people like him.

"He was like a wild animal when he raped me. He completely forgot I was a person at all. I'll never forget the pain."

Matthew's life changed for ever the day he walked into the Barbican Discount store in the centre of Plymouth with his pregnant mother.

The 4ft 6in lad was a withdrawn but bright teenager doing well at school. Then Goad spotted him as he and his mum shopped for curtains.

The millionaire paedophile, now 60, liked preying on vulnerable youngsters from the poor families who used his discount stores.

"He came straight up and offered me a part-time job. My mum was pregnant so I thought I'd take it to help her out," says Matthew.

"I used the money from my first shift to buy nappies and baby clothes.

"I was working only my second shift when the other boys said to come back to his house. They said it was fun."

Goad's four-bed Crown Hill townhouse was deliberately kitted out to lure young boys.

It boasted pool tables, arcade games and even a swimming pool. Some boys were invited to sleep there.

"I started going there a couple of a times a week," says Matthew. Goad began his grooming by giving him what appeared to be friendly cuddles. "I felt very uncomfortable but I did not know how to get away from it."

Goad also used cash to tempt hard-up Matthew back time and time again. "I also used to get money every time I went, anything from a fiver to £30. "There were always other boys there playing computer games and pool," says Matthew.

"The sexual abuse started gradually," he recalls. Then came the rape. Goad led the youngster up to the large sunken bath in his home where he attacked him.

Secret

"I will never forget the way he looked—like The Penguin from Batman," says Matthew. "What happened in that bathroom still haunts me. I still get flashbacks.

"The next day he sent a boy round to say there was no job for me any more. Maybe Goad thought I would let his secret out."

Matthew reveals how Goad used fear to keep his boys silent.

"He scared me. He boasted of his connections and was a very controlling man."

Now it is all over—but Matthew will never be the same. "Over the years I've taken so many drugs to try to wipe it out of my mind," he says. "I'm still on speed and dope.

"But I feel better now he is behind bars. I feel there is some closure."

Paul's story

TORMENTED Paul Wyatt drove his motorbike into a 50mph head-on crash in a bid to kill himself—and wipe out his years of hell at the hands of William Goad.

Paul, 35, was just 13 when the paedophile recruited him to his gang of young victims after giving him a job in one of his stores.

What happened to him has haunted him ever since—and drove him to attempt suicide. But unlike two other Goad victims who killed themselves, Paul survived.

"I felt worthless. He had destroyed my soul. There was no point in carrying on," says Paul. "So at 16 I rode my bike straight into a car. But all I did was shatter my leg."

Now he is trying to rebuild his devastated life along with other victims in a support group called Survivors Of Bill.

Paul was drawn into Goad's net in the usual way—and the brazen pervert even went round to his home to assure his parents the youngster would be well looked after at his store. "He became friends with my mum and dad—and all the boys who worked for him idolised him," says Paul.

Goad—who boasted of molesting 142 boys in a year—even loaned Paul's redundant father cash to launch a business, knowing he could use it down the line to blackmail the terrified youngster.

"He was always flashing his money around. That was how he groomed youngsters," says Paul. "His house in Crown Hill had everything you could want. It was like Never Never Land.

"He would promise you everything." Goad handed out BMX bikes, mini motorbikes and paid for trips to America in a bid to buy his victims' silence. His attacks on Paul started in the warehouse. "One day I was on my own and he started messing with me. I tried to get him off but he persisted," says Paul. "He started touching me in places and apologising to see how I'd react." Then the blackmail began. He threatened to pull the financial plug on Paul's dad if the youngster revealed his awful secret.

Moor

"He said we'd be homeless. He even said he would take out a contract on me. That's when the abuse progressed," says Paul.

"I tried to make him stop but he blackmailed me." The assaults continued for about 18 months until Goad took Paul on to the moor near Plymouth and raped him. "There were three of us in the car. He told the other two to go for a walk, then he got in the back seat with me," says Paul. "He grabbed me and did it. I felt so dirty. I hid at home for weeks. I kept away from him after that."

But the emotional and mental damage was done. "My life went downhill. My behaviour changed. I became violent," says Paul."

By 15 he had developed an amphetamine habit, turning to crime to feed it. "I was out of control," he admits.

But inside, Paul burned with a desire for justice. And in 1995 he and two others plucked up the courage to make allegations against Goad.

After police officers arrested the paedophile he skipped bail and fled to the Far East for eight years.

He returned to England in 2003 using a false passport but was quickly picked up by police.

Paul—now a volunteer support worker—says: "For 20 years I have wanted to see this day. But it won't repair the damage he has done."