WELL DESERVED

SPAIN'S Supreme Court has upheld a 135-year prison sentence for a British teacher who created and distributed pornography of children in his care.

Ben David Rose was exposed by the Olive Press for changing his name by deed poll to become a nanny in Spain following convictions in the UK. His devious behaviour led to the stiff jail term last year after being found guilty of molesting up to 36 children aged between four and eight years old. It came after he was able to deceptively land a job at one of Madrid’s most prestigious private schools.

No respite for Brit paedo teacher

By Alex Trelinski

The case raised serious safeguarding concerns after it emerged he had been convicted for similar crimes in the UK and placed on the sex offenders register before moving to Spain. Incredibly, his move was not properly monitored and he landed a job as an au pair in Zaragoza and then as an English teacher in several schools in the capital.

The 33-year-old had been con-

STAFFORDSHIRE police have got a tip-off that an ‘on the run’ convicted murderer could be hiding out in Alicante province.

Glenn Wathall, 65, from Burton upon Trent was convicted in 1999 after beating his partner to death on Christmas Day. He was sentenced to life behind bars but released on licence in 2015, but victed of sex crimes against children while running a summer camp near London under his previous name Ben David Lewis in 2016.

In an Olive Press probe, it emerged that within days of being handed a suspended sentence and placed on the UK sex offenders register he changed his name to Ben David Rose. He applied for a new passport and fled to Spain where he quickly found work as a nanny looking after three children. Rose then moved to Madrid