A 63-year-old man has been warned he faces a jail sentence after being convicted of indecency with a girl of seven at a working men's club.

Ernest Aldred was granted bail until April 29 when he will be sentenced, but a judge said: "The very likely outcome is I shall be sending you to prison."

The jury at Maidstone Crown Court heard how the young girl committed a sex act on Aldred at the Wainscott Institute near Strood - and was annoyed to be interrupted by outraged witnesses.

Karen Holt, prosecuting, said shortly before, Aldred had been sitting at a table blatantly performing a sex act on himself.

Michael and Lynn Griffiths were setting up their musical equipment for a social evening at the club on July 5 2003 when they saw what Aldred was doing.

He gave two boys some money and they went to the bar area, leaving him with the girl. He nodded or beckoned to her and moved her head towards his groin.

Miss Holt told the court that Mr Griffiths was extremely angry and his wife went over to Aldred, pulled the girl away and shouted at him.

Aldred, who was living in Warden Road, Rochester, but has now moved to Lowestoft, Suffolk, denied gross indecency with a child and outraging public decency.

After he was convicted on unanimous verdicts Deborah Champion, defending, requested pre-sentence reports, telling Judge Andrew Patience, QC, that Aldred suffered from severe emphysema.

The judge told Aldred, who has been staying with family in Strood during the trial: "You have been found guilty of very serious offences. Have no doubt about it - and the very likely outcome is I shall be sending you to prison."

Judge Patience ordered that Aldred should not be in the company of children unless an adult over 18 was present. He also banned him from returning to Kent before the sentencing.