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He then disseminated the sick material on paedophile forums on the dark web around the world. Emily Konstantas, CEO of The Safeguarding Alliance, applauded the Olive Press for highlighting the issue: “The Ben Lewis case as revealed by the Ol-
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idenlanguage academy after creating a new tity, using forged documents. reFormer colleagues of the sex offender to dodge vealed that he created a new namerun sumcriminal record checks in order to to mer camps and teach private classes young children. after He had changed his name to Ben David and being convicted in June 2016 of taking in possessing indecent images of children England. As well as being placed on the sex offender list and being handed a two-year suspended sentence, he was barred from leaving the country or working with children. Yet within weeks he had moved to Spain and found work in Zaragoza as a livein au pair to a family with three young children. The following year he relocated to Madrid and began teaching children at a well-known language academy after getting a criminal record check from Zaragoza police to show he had no convictions in Spain over the previous 12 months. Then in December
post DANGER: Lewis got teaching teacher 2017 he accepted a job as an English secat a leading semi-private (concertado)from ondary school that receives subsidies the state. David by “He was going by the name Ben another then and was offered the job aftera former teacher dropped out mid-term,” the Olive colleague Natasha Fitzsimons told
Press. the posi“I think they were desperate to fill as tion so maybe they weren’t as thorough they should have been.
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AN ecological nightmare, hundreds of “This is ancient oaks parently stand ap- attempt a cynical and botched to Pulled up for dead. around the create ambience a huge golf golf course roproject, they macand line up in ee- create space,” said rie rows like tree surgeon war graves Somme. in the very Kit Hogg. “I am sure few of these Many centuries old, they have trees will survive. protected been sacrifi It is disgusting.” ced for Europe’s insatiable desire Despite ongoing holiday homes. for golf and stop the work, EU efforts to Part of investigations and – crucially costaficationthe unrelenting guarantee – no of Andalucia, of they sound Los Merinos,water, work at the death knell nature conservation near for continues unchecked. Ronda in southern Spain. This is the true price of golf.
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ROM its very first issue in 2006 the Olive Press has been campaigning for its community. Whether fighting for the environment or digging into crooks, we have taken some big scalps. Starting from Issue One (see top right) we highlighted the ridiculous plans to build 2000 houses, two golf courses and two hotels on UNESCO-protected land near Ronda, as well as exposed the madness of building a 350-room monstrosity on a virgin beach in Almeria’s Cabo de Gata. Both schemes - Los Merinos, in Ron- maverick Jeremy Griffiths, and Nigel da, and the Algarrobico hotel, in Alme- Goldman, a degenerate gold-dealing ria - went into reverse after our stories dirt-bag, who had a restaurant column made the UK AND Spanish national in a local newspaper, which he used to newspapers and green groups includ- cover his tracks. ing Greenpeace and Ecologistas en Ac- We also tackled timeshare crook Toni Muldoon, who certainly deserves a cion joined our protests. And then there were the crooks, like mention for conning thousands of peoCrimestoppers’ Most Wanted Daniel ple and eventually went to prison for Johnston, a bank robber, and Matthew setting up fake escort websites. Sammon, a dangerous paedophile, Meanwhile, our crime reporting on who we single-handedly tracked down missing teen Amy Fitzpatrick ‘blew open to a village near Sevilla and a car park the case’, to use the words of her grandmother, while our continuing investigain Fuengirola. And fraudsters like David ‘the dogman’ tion into missing Maddie McCann has yielded exclusive after exclusive, with its Klein, pet transport frequent links to Spain.
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THE warning from The Safeguarding Alliance came as a Gibraltar teacher was charged with sexual offences against children whilst in a position of trust. British national Claire Treacy, 25, of Midtown, Queensway, a teacher in a Gibraltar school, was on Tuesday charged with five counts of “Sexual activity with a child by a person in a position of trust,” according to a statement by Royal Gibraltar Police (RGP). The charges follow her arrest in November 2020 by detectives from the RGP Safeguarding Team following a report made to police, and come at the end of an extensive investigation into activity she had reportedly engaged in with two separate victims (both of whom are now adults), on diverse dates between 2018 and 2020. Gibraltar has its own Public Protection Unit containing the specialist Designated Risk Management Team (DRMT). “It’s primary purpose is the risk management of sex offenders within our community and of those that move into our community, no matter what efforts they make to disguise their identity,” explained a spokesman from the RGP. “DRMT officers receive specialist training to enable them to carry out their role, which they perform in close collaboration with law enforcement counterparts in other jurisdictions, particularly in the UK,” he added. www.villaparadisospain.com
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for 18 “We worked together at the school gomonths, took on private classes together for ing to the homes of some of the children summer extracurricular teaching and ran a said the camp at the school during 2018,”horror at Irish colleague, who is filled with the access he had to children. the day The Olive Press has discovered that his after sentencing in the UK he changed Lewis name by deed poll from Ben David just 15 to Ben David, in a process that takes minutes. a British He then applied for and received also prepassport in his new name, while he Israeli sented a doctored photocopy of his a passport stamped and verified by showed that firm law non-existent his name as Ben David Rose. The Olive Press has seen photocopies of these, plus a teaching degree and Qualified Teaching Status (QTS) certificates presented in the name ALL AREAS COVERED of Ben David Rose as well as certificates in his original name. 4G UNLIMITED What is amazing is that by April 2019 he had applied for a teaching INTERNET job at a leading private school in the IDEAL FOR upmarket Arturo Soria district that STREAMING TV teaches the British curriculum to the ALSO IPTV, children of Madrid’s elite. By now he also had a DBS certificate SATELLITE TV
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THERESA May has vowed Britain won’t half out’ Brexitaccept a ‘half in, speech that is in a landmark likely to have long-lasting effects on Gibraltar and all expats in Spain. The Prime Minister issued 12-point plan to take Britaina out of the EU, ing Street looking with Downto scrap EU single market and current customs union access. In the biggest month tenure,speech of her sixclear, what I amshe said: “To be proposing cannot mean membership of the single market.” She added Britain would no longer give ‘huge EU, however she sums’ to the Parliament will conceded that vote on the deal. have the final Maintaining the common travel area between the United Kingdom and EXCLUSIVE Ireland is also the Republic of By Gabrielle a priority during Pickard-Whitehead the Brexit negotiations. and Laurence However, the Dollimore tar with Spainborder of Gibral- A BRITISH was not menexpat rushed to the tioned. after finding five has called in police vets he died 30 later. of her dogs executed minutes a late-night massacre. in An X-ray showed The Guardia in 2004, found Control shot through the he also had a bullet ing the horrificCivil are now investigatin their pens onthe five rescue dogs shot Meanwhile, roof of his mouth. “We want to attack that one of the Reyes (ThreeJanuary 6, the night of was migration fromcontrol our im- of Illona Mitchell’s horses also left one also attacked, Mitchell’s 12 horses Kings). with its eye Her beloved seven-year-old so savagely May. “We also the EU,” said gouged out. eye may have to be removed. that its of the friendliest Dizzy, ‘one Vets importance of recognise the The detectives from the have been struggling environment the brightest section Seprona meet’ and a puppydogs you will ever four-year-old, and the best coming to treat the told called Maisie shot dead at the here. We it was one of the worstMitchell, 48, that were he has become named Rocco, because recognise the attacks too nervous and Meanwhile Cocogates of their pens. have made.” contribution they seen and were visibly shocked they had Deeply traumatised skittish. They have put shot in their beds, and Domingo, were thankfully by the May is believed on extra patrolsby it. with Mitchell was not seen attack - that ing they had by her daughpermit system to favour a work- an eye on the estate at weekendsto keep cowered in their believ- ter Ella, 11 - Mitchell night. before being killed and at kennels so angry continued: “I trigger Article as she looks to in cold blood. am that someone “I am sickened Coco, two, had would do someIt comes as the50 by March. thing as disgusting as to why range betweenbeen shot at point-blank animals.” as this to innocent published data House of Lords would carry out such a cruel someone the eyes, while and bar- week. year-old Domingo three- Mitchell, der closure withshowing a bor- baric attack on innocent, was shot through from side of his face. put 40% of jobs Spain would animals,” she told the Olivedefenceless The mother-of-one, the tack is linked Chester, believes the atto her recent Press this her at risk in Giabove, who bought They later found braltar. ban hunters from decision to estate in mountains Jack, a six-year-old near Granada German Shepherd, having The 32 page-report, estate that sits her huge 173-hectare in under a nearby convulsions the based on Gibraltar Sierra de Baza. stunning scenery in tree, but despite government evibeing dence, estimates Continues on Rock’s 26,000 10,500 of the Page 4 the border daily.workers crossed Opinion Page Est 1984 6 “A frontier which necessary fluidity lacked the fore put directly would thereAntiques, Jewellers of 40% of the at risk the jobs For all your Gibraltar workforce,” said a spokesman. & Pawnbrokers insurance needs! May’s speech A huge variety was cheered of over Leave campaigners, by 1 carat diamond pushing for a ‘hard’ who are Brexit. jewellery. She said:“We adopt a model do not seek to HIGH STREET PRICES: already enjoyed estepona@ibexinsure.com by other countries. Choose one of 7,000€+ We do not our great OUR PRICE: 1,500 seek to hold on lens offers or - 2,000€ get 30% bership as we to bits of memoff selected “The British leave,” said May. Fuengirola frames UNBEATABLE change. And people voted for PRICES GUARANTEED See our ad inside it is the government’s job to deliver WE BUY, WE for details. fuengirola@ibexinsure.com it.”
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nº 22807454 D./Dª BEN DAVID ROSE con Pasaporte 26 de febrero, relativa a la organización Marco 2009/315/JAI del Consejo de Conforme a lo dispuesto en la Decisión entre los Estados miembros, de los registros de antecedentes penales y al contenido del intercambio de información caso, las condenas impuestas por otros el presente certificado incluye, en su tratándose de ciudadanos españoles, condenas hayan sido notificadas, sin en los mismos términos en que tales Europea, Unión la de miembros Estados de condena y los tipos delictivos entre los tipos delictivos del Estado que exista necesariamente una equiparación nacionales.
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Through extensive research and case law The Safeguarding Alliance has identified that offenders are not notifying as required and are continuing to abuse children by changing their names and obfuscating their identities as seen through the case of Ben Lewis/ Rose absconding overseas to continue to abuse. Documento firmado electrónicamente
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“As a result, the effectiveness of important legislation, the Sex Offenders Register, the Child Sex Offender Disclosure Scheme, the Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme, the DBS are undermined and effectively rendered redundant,” it states. “The case of Ben Lewis/Rose highlights why Spain should be aware of this very serious safeguarding loophole and should pioneer an international movement to protect its children from those abusers who slip under the radar using the name change loophole,” Konstantas added. Opinion Page 6