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a school warning after EXCLUSIVE: Private e moved to Spain, convicted British paedophil checks and found dodged criminal record teacher work as an English around Spain INTERNATIONAL schools alert after a British have been put on highone of Madrid’s most man began teaching at after being conexclusive colleges months victed in the UK. after Ben Lewis, Questions have been raisedschool despite be31, was able to work at the register. ing on the UK’s sex offenders that Lewis, The Olive Press has discovered for child sex ofwho is now awaiting trial Madrid V, fences at Centro Penitenciario schools and a TWO managed to hoodwink
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creating a new idenlanguage academy after tity, using forged documents. the sex offender reFormer colleagues of new name to dodge DANGER: Lewis got teaching post vealed that he created ain order to run sumteacher criminal record checks private classes to 2017 he accepted a job as an English (concertado) secmer camps and teach at a leading semi-private from that receives subsidies young children. to Ben David after ondary school He had changed his name2016 of taking and the state. by by the name Ben David being convicted in June of children in “He was going job after another possessing indecent images then and was offered the a former England. dropped out mid-term,” on As well as being placed be- teacher Natasha Fitzsimons told the Olive colleague the sex offender list and Press. fill the posiing handed a two-year susthey were desperate to thorough as was pended sentence, he the “I think they weren’t as maybe so tion leaving barred from should have been. country or working with they children. had Horrified Yet within weeks he for 18 together at the school moved to Spain and found golive- “We worked work in Zaragoza as a with months, took on private classes together for of the children in au pair to a family ing to the homes of someand ran a summer teaching three young children. the re- extracurricular The following year he be- camp at the school during 2018,” said at located to Madrid and at a Irish colleague, who is filled with horror gan teaching children the access he had to children. well-known language The Olive Press has discovered that the day academy after get- after sentencing in the UK he changed his ting a criminal record name by deed poll from Ben David Lewis check from Zarago- to Ben David, in a process that takes just 15 za police to show he minutes. had no convictions in He then applied for and received a British Spain over the previ- passport in his new name, while he also preof his Israeli ous 12 months. sented a doctored photocopy verified by a Then in December passport stamped and that showed firm non-existent law Rose. his name as Ben David photocopThe Olive Press has seen degree ies of these, plus a teaching Status (QTS) and Qualified Teachingin the name certificates presented ALL AREAS COVERED as certifof Ben David Rose as well icates in his original name. by April 4G UNLIMITED What is amazing is thata teaching 2019 he had applied for INTERNET school in the job at a leading private district that IDEAL FOR upmarket Arturo Soria to the STREAMING TV teaches the British curriculum elite. Madrid’s of children ALSO IPTV, certificate By now he also had a DBS
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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 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 deterrent 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.
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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
maverick Jeremy Griffiths, and Nigel Goldman, a degenerate gold-dealing dirt-bag, who had a restaurant column in a local newspaper, which he used to cover his tracks. We also tackled timeshare crook Toni Muldoon, who certainly deserves a mention for conning thousands of people and eventually went to prison for setting up fake escort websites. Meanwhile, our crime reporting on missing teen Amy Fitzpatrick ‘blew open the case’, to use the words of her grandmother, while our continuing investigation into missing Maddie McCann has yielded exclusive after exclusive, with its frequent links to Spain.
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We reported how Ben Lewis, 31, had changed his name by deed poll, applied for a new British passport, and dodged criminal record checks despite being on the UK’s sex offenders register. Police in Spain issued a statement last week describing Lewis - or Ben David Rose, as he is now known - as ‘a dangerous child sexual predator’. The National Police said that he had used his position as a teacher at private schools in Madrid to gain access to children whom he photographed and filmed. He then disseminated the sick material on paedo 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 Olive Press highlights this loophole and as shocking as this is, it is nothing new and
unfortunately represents just the tip of the iceberg as to the magnitude of this problem.” She warned: “Whilst the status quo remains in situ this significant and very dangerous safeguarding loophole will continue to pose a threat, not just to UK Nationals, but to the rest of the world putting children 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
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Olive Press exclusive investigation leads to child protection plea from United Kingdom charity
THERESA May Britain won’t accepthas vowed half out’ Brexit in a ‘half in, a landmark speech that is likely to have long-lasting effects on Gibraltar and all expats in Spain. The Prime Minister issued a 12-point plan to out of the EU, take Britain ing Street looking with Downsingle market and to scrap EU toms union access.current cusIn the biggest speech month tenure, she of her sixsaid: “To be clear, what I am proposing not mean membership canof the single market.” She added Britain longer give ‘huge would no EU, however she sums’ to the conceded that Parliament will have the final vote on the deal. Maintaining the travel area between common Kingdom and the the United EXCLUSIVE Republic of Ireland is also a priority By Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead the Brexit negotiations. during and Laurence Dollimore However, the border rushed to the vets tar with Spain was of Gibral- A BRITISH expat he died 30 minutes has not men- after later. tioned. finding five of her called in police dogs executed in An X-ray showed a late-night massacre. he also had a in 2004, found the The Guardia Civil five rescue dogs shot shot through the roof of his mouth.bullet are now investigatin their pens on January Control Meanwhile, one ing the horrific attack of Mitchell’s 12 horses 6, the night of was also the Reyes (Three that also “We want to control attacked, Kings). our im- of Illona Mitchell’s horses withleft one Her beloved seven-year-old migration from eye may have to be so savagely that its its eye gouged out. removed. Dizzy, ‘one Vets have of the friendliest May. “We also the EU,” said The detectives been from the environment meet’ and a puppydogs you will ever four-year-old, struggling to treat the importance of recognise the section the brightest Seprona told Mitchell, shot dead at the gatescalled Maisie were he has become named Rocco, because and the best coming too of their pens. here. We it was one of the worst attacks 48, that Meanwhile Coco recognise the contribution Deeply traumatisednervous and skittish. they by the attack they seen and were visibly shocked by had shot in their beds, and Domingo, were thankfully was have made.” it. They have put on with Mitchell believnot seen by her - that extra patrols to keep ing they had cowered daughMay is believed to ter Ella, 11 - Mitchell an eye in their kennels so angry continued: “I am before being killed permit system asfavour a work- night. on the estate at weekends and at that someone would Coco, two, had beenin cold blood. do sometrigger Article 50 byshe looks to “I am thing as disgusting sickened as to March. as this to innocent range between the shot at point-blank animals.” It comes as the House why of Lords would carry out such a cruel someone year-old Domingo eyes, while three- Mitchell, from published data showing and bar- week. was shot through Chester, believes a bor- baric attack on innocent, defenceless side of his face. the tack is linked to the der closure with animals,” she told her recent decision atthe Olive Press this The mother-of-one, above, who They later found put 40% of jobs Spain would to bought Jack, a six-year-old ban hunters from her huge her estate in mountains at risk in Gibraltar. near Granada German Shepherd, having convulsions estate that sits in stunning173-hectare scenery in under a nearby tree, The 32 page-report, the Sierra de Baza. but despite being on Gibraltar governmentbased Continues on Page evidence, estimates 4 10,500 of the Rock’s 26,000 workers Opinion Page 6 Est 1984 crossed the border daily. “A frontier which necessary fluidity lacked the fore put directly atwould thereAntiques, Jewellers risk the jobs of 40% of the Gibraltar For all your & Pawnbrokers force,” said a spokesman. workinsurance needs! A huge variety of May’s speech was over Leave campaigners,cheered by 1 carat diamond jewellery. pushing for a ‘hard’ who are She said:“We do Brexit. not seek to HIGH STREET PRICES: adopt a model already Choose one of our 7,000€+ estepona@ibexinsure.com enjoyed great by other countries. OUR PRICE: 1,500 lens offers or get 30% seek to hold on to We do not 2,000€ bits of memoff selected frames bership as we leave,” Fuengirola UNBEATABLE PRICES “The British people said May. See our ad inside voted for GUARANTEED for details. change. And it is WE BUY, WE PAY ment’s job to deliverthe governfuengirola@ibexinsure.com MORE, WE it.”
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