Evil paedophile David Sullivan took a 15-year-old child to his Lisbellaw flat where he forced him to watch pornography before sexually abusing him in the latter years of his life, it has emerged.
The sick predator who was murdered and found buried in a Border bog in 2000 spent years preying on innocent school children and getting away with it. 
Last month one of his victims courageously came forward to reveal how the former Ulsterbus driver sexually abused him 12 times on his bus and last week the sister of another of his victim’s recalled how Sullivan drugged and raped her brother, leaving him mentally and physically scarred for life.
The police at the time allegedly advised the family to “drop” their case. 
This week a third victim has approached this newspaper claiming that Sullivan who was dying of Parkinson’s Disease at the time abused him after he thumbed for a lift on the Dublin Road.
In 1995, three years before Sullivan was killed, Peter (not his real name) recalls missing the bus home after working late in the evening in Enniskillen and hitching a lift when at around half six or seven o’clock Sullivan offered to take him home.
“This aged man stopped and asked me if I wanted a lift. I said, yeah and got in. He was all slouched over, he was a strange man,” recalled Peter, who is now 39.
“When we went down the road everything was normal enough and then he said he had left the fire on in the house and hadn’t put the guard on. He said ‘do you mind if I go and check it’, I said OK, and that was his way of getting the car turned.”
Sullivan brought the schoolboy to his home in Lisbellaw and asked him to go inside with him. 
“To this day I don’t know why I went in,” he said. 
Inside the living room which was adorned with family pictures was the fireplace but there was no fire on. It was a ruse to get the schoolboy inside. 
“It never even registered with me that there wasn’t even a fire on in the house,” said Peter. “Then he put on pornographic videos. I thought this was strange. I remember this was unusual because I had never seen anything like this before,” he said.
And then things turned sinister. 
“Then he started taking his clothes off. This is what really annoys me about the whole thing; I don’t understand why I didn’t get up and leave. I sat there and froze. I am annoyed I didn’t react.”
Sullivan approached the schoolboy and abused him for about 45 minutes. 
“He touched me and stuff. He abused me, he did. It went on for a long time, it felt like forever. He was a sick, sick individual. 
“As he abused me he had the videos on in the background, I can’t go into detail about them. What he was doing to me was sick, what he was doing to himself was sick,” he said.
It was a horrifying experience for Peter who realised there and then that this man who had offered to take him home was a wicked individual hellbent on taking his innocence. 
“There was a real dark side to him, he was a bad, bad man. He was evil, an evil, cunning man. He knew what he was doing from the moment he picked me up, he had it planned. Obviously he had been doing that type of thing before.”
Peter repeatedly asked Sullivan to let him go, he needed to get home. 
“Eventually he let me. He got his satisfaction out of it, he put his clothes back on. He brought me home, I didn’t let him bring me to the house. I wasn’t mentally well after that,” he said.
“It affected me for years later. I took a lot of drink and drugs for a long time. But it doesn’t affect me now. I got over all that; I have a good job, I have a good family.
“I have never really spoken about this, I read the articles on him in The Impartial Reporter and thought if I say something it might help someone else to say something. I wanted that first man who spoken out about being abused by him to know that it wasn’t just him.” 
Peter says he has never considering going to the police because he felt “embarrassed”.
“I thought they would think, why did you go into the house? I wanted to forget about it. The police in the 90s were dealing with the Troubles, I don’t think this would have been a concern of theirs, to be honest. 
“I saw Sullivan loads of times afterwards. I saw him on a regular basis. He was a predator. Thumbing was a normal thing to do, everybody did it. He was always on the road. As soon as the training centre was finished he would have preyed on those boys and there would have been five, 10 different boys every evening.  
“He used to go up the road and turn, up and down, trying to get you into the car. I used to see other schoolboys in the car with him, many times. I know one in particular who wasn’t well educated. He would have got a lift with Sullivan loads of times. God help that boy.
“He was always crawling the streets looking for someone to abuse,” he said.
And then he was killed.
“I was so happy when he died. He had a brutal death and that was what he deserved. I’d shake the man’s hand.”

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