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after a EXCLUSIVE: Private school warning moved to Spain, convicted British paedophile and found dodged criminal record checks work as an English teacher

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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

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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.

A decade and a half of campaigning has scored some big wins for the Olive Press

When it comes to corruption we were the first English newspaper to write about the ERE scandal at the Junta de Andalucia that cost an estimated billion euros to the taxpayers, while we also tackled town hall theft on a local scale on dozens of occasions. Animal cruelty has been a continual bugbear and we have exposed so many evil abusers, as well as the scoundrels who allowed hunters to kill innocent circus lions and tigers at a finca in Extremadura (see below). On a more positive front, it was great to interview everyone from Princess Diana’s ex-lover James Hewett to cooking

legends Ferran Adria and Gordon Ramsey. And it was nice to chat to Ciudadanos leader Albert Rivera, as well as the only newspaper to be able to pose a couple of questions to Michelle Obama on her visit to Marbella a few years ago. Indeed, the positives far outweigh the negatives and we would prefer to be judged over 50 rather than 15 years. As far as we are concerned we have only just begun.

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dren and those most vulnerable at risk,” she warned. “There are potentially hundreds - if not thousands - of known sex offenders slipping under the radar in the UK to seek work abroad where they can continue to abuse children,” she continued. “This loophole is arguably the biggest safeguarding scandal the world has ever seen and there is an opportunity for Spain to lead the way in tackling it at a global level,” she said. Her charity wants Spain to introduce the need to present an original birth certificate alongside a passport and criminal record checks that would allow potential employers to unearth a change of identity. “It’s a simple way to provide that extra check,” she insisted. “The severity and danger this loophole presents to the whole world cannot be underestimated.” An extensive report by The Safeguarding Alliance is being used to lobby the UK parliament for a legal change in the management of registered sex offenders. It explains how the current system relies on the registered sex offender to notify the police with details of any name change, alongside any change of address and passport information. “Currently the onus lies solely with the offender and although it is an offence to fail to notify, one could argue this is not a de-

to the police, and failure to so is a criminal offence which could result in a term not exceeding five years imprisonment. However, evidence demonstrates that not every registered sex offender will act with honesty and report a change of name as required. The Safeguarding Alliance discovered through Freedom of Information requests to 16 of the UK’s 46 police forces that 913 people with sex offence convictions had gone missing after changing their names without informing the police.

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Waugh, from Middlesbrough, was acquitted of manslaughter by nine jurors on the basis the kick was not picked up on CCTV. The defendant admitted to slapping the 30-year-old shopkeeper’s son after taking the stand at the start of his two-week trial at the Audiencia Provincial Court in Palma. Waugh denied being the person who delivered the kick to Henderson’s head, said to have caused his death as he lay on the ground. A witness said someone else had committed the assault. Waugh’s Spanish boss who stood accused of trying to cover up the attack was also cleared of any wrongdoing.

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A BRITISH expat has been acquitted of killing a holidaymaker in the tourist resort of Magaluf. Paul Waugh, who worked at Mulligans bar on the popular party strip, was cleared of manslaughter after he was accused of kicking an Irish holidaymaker in the head in April 2018. Waugh, 35, was alleged to have caused father-of-four Aaron Henderson to suffer a bleed to the brain after launching the savage attack outside the nightclub where he worked. Henderson, 30, who had been on holiday with his girlfriend at the time, died in hospital four days later. Spanish cops then arrested Waugh as well as the 40-year-old manager of Mulligans bar on Magaluf's infamous Punta Ballena strip.

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terrent as the offender already has the propensity to commit very serious crimes,” states the report, seen by the Olive Press. 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. Signature Not Verified

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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


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