A gardener used his job as a cover to abuse a young girl.

He even groped the eight-year-old in her parents' bedroom and also while her grandmother was in the room.

James Mullen, aged 46, of Shooters Hill Road, Shooters Hill, often called on the Bromley house on his rounds, Croydon Crown Court was told.

Mullen denied four charges of indecent assault but the young victim gave evidence through a closed circuit TV link. He was found guilty and sentenced to four years' imprisonment on March 28.

The offences were committed between March 2001 and April 2002.

Sentencing, Judge Edward Southwell said: "You were welcomed into the house and what you did was a gross abuse of trust."