-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Wishing all Goanetters | | a Prosperous | | and | | Happy New Year - 2006 | | Goanet - http://www.goanet.org | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paedophile jailed in first use of laws to combat sex tourism The Times January 07, 2006 By Michael Horsnell A DEPRAVED hobby shop assistant was jailed yesterday after becoming the first British sex tourist to be brought to justice under new laws designed to catch paedophiles operating abroad. Alexander Kilpatrick, 56, a "dangerous, devious and predatory" monster, filmed himself abusing young boys in Africa and Britain in a specially converted van, complete with mattress and high-tech video equipment. He was caught with more than 5,000 "harrowing" child pornography pictures and homemade snaps and videos, to some of which he had added a soundtrack of love songs. Judge Roger Chapple, who rebuked him for a "catalogue of manipulation, corruption, depravity and degradation", said that the minimum term Kilpatrick must serve is six years. Kilpatrick was banned from working with children, being in the company of anyone under 16 or traveling to Africa, Thailand, Cambodia, Goa or Costa Rica. He will sign on the sex offenders register for life. Peter Zinner, prosecuting, earlier told Middlesex Guildhall Crown Court in London that Kilpatrick was the first person to be targeted by police under the 2003 Sex Offences Act. "That is the so-called long arm of sex tourism provision, allowing the authorities to reach out across the world to bring to justice those British citizens who sexually abuse children in other jurisdictions," he said.
Kilpatrick, a father of two who has been disowned by his family, repeatedly visited Africa to prey on poverty-stricken children but also used his mobile home to tour England looking for other vulnerable youngsters. He often filmed his depravity, transferring pictures to CD-Rom before spending hours editing them, setting them to music, and labeling them with his victims' names. One 12-year-old who he groomed in Britain with alcohol, gifts and porn after the boy's father died, spent several weeks waiting to see if he had contracted HIV. The tests were clear. The court was told that another youngster Kilpatrick targeted with drink ended up so intoxicated and ill that he escaped the sexual ordeal intended for him. The divorcee's perversion was ended last May when a French holidaymaker spotted him handing out toys during his third trip to Ghana. He was held by Customs officers at Heathrow airport on his return and had with him a computer and 60 CD-Roms containing indecent images and videos of children as well as those of himself. Indecent films and photographs, some downloaded from the internet, were recovered from his mobile home, which at that time was parked in a residential road in Milton Keynes. Kilpatrick pleaded guilty to a total of 17 counts between October 1, 2004 and May 8 last year involving children in Africa and Britain. They include three rapes, three attempted rapes, two assaults, one assault by penetration, causing a child to engage in sexual activity, administering a substance with intent, taking indecent photographs of children, possessing them, and importing porn. Many were specimen charges. Mr Zinner said: "His choice of victims and methods were well thought out to ensure a minimum risk of detection." He said that two identified victims in Ghana were prime examples. "They were residing in a remote village and were particularly vulnerable." Furthermore, the area they came from was one where many lived in "abject poverty". Using his "significant economic power", Kilpatrick set about grooming his victims, buying them meals, and in some cases giving them alcohol. "They experienced serious sexual abuse, including attempted anal rape," the court was told. Mr Zinner said that the boys fell into Kilpatrick's clutches after he visited one of his sons, a "highly respected" voluntary worker who was carrying out humanitarian work in the south of the country with local people. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Goa - 2005 Santosh Trophy Champions | | | | Support Soccer Activities at the grassroots in our villages | | Vacationing in Goa this year-end - Carry and distribute Soccer Balls | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
