A ‘DEPRAVED’ sex offender who raped his own daughter from the age of five has died in prison.

Terry Haynes, formerly of Mathews Way, Abingdon, died at the age of 79 while serving a 21 year sentence at HMP Rye Hill in Northamptonshire.

A report by the Prisons & Probation Ombudsman revealed that Haynes, known as Rev Haynes, died on July 30, 2022 from bladder cancer.

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Haynes was first convicted after a trial in 2014 of 12 counts of rape, 11 counts of indecent assault and one attempted rape carried out between 1980 and 1990.

Judge Patrick Eccles described the sexual abuse as ‘depraved’ while sentencing him to 15 years in jail.

The victim of all but one of his crimes was his daughter Teresa Haynes, who waived her right to anonymity. After his conviction, she said she had forgiven him and added: “No amount of time in prison is going to change what he did.”

Haynes was also convicted of an attempted rape of another woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons.

Then in 2018, after a trial at Reading Crown Court, he was jailed for a further six years for one count of gross indecency with/towards a child and eight counts of indecent assault of a boy.

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This was after the victims recognised Haynes when his mugshot was released by police and they came forward to police as victims of Haynes.

Haynes carried out the offences against two boys in Tubney Woods near Frilford during the 1960s and 1970s.

One victim, Jeff Harris, took his own life three months after giving evidence in court. At his inquest, assistant coroner Rosamund Rhodes-Kemp said it was a shame that the court process did not offer Mr Harris more support.

Within the report on Haynes’s death, assistant ombudsman Louise Richards wrote that Haynes had been transferred to the prison in December 2017.

He was diagnosed with cancer on June 20 after first noticing symptoms in May and his family members raised concerns with the prison.

He was taken to hospital on July 9 after being found unresponsive in his cell but did not recover. His medical cause of death was provided as a bladder tumour.

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During his first sentencing, his barrister Lisa Matthews admitted there was little she could say in mitigation because Haynes still maintained he was innocent.

She said: “The main concern is that he will die in prison and that is what he and his family most fear.”

His sentence was reduced in light of his ill health at the time.