Jail for the perverted puppeteer

A photographer who exhibited alongside David Bailey has been jailed for eight years for a series of historic sexual offences against children. Former TV and film special effects artist David Trainer, 63, carried out a ‘campaign of predatory sexual abuse’ on children as young as five, during the 1980s and 1990s. Trainer, who also worked as a puppeteer in the musical ‘Little Shop of Horrors’, admitted eight counts of indecent assault and six counts of indecency with a child. The…