He is alleged to have paid the mother of one of the children £3,000 for a week-long sex contract. Leach appeared at Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Thursday where he was charged along with the 40-year-old mother of one of the children.Sep 12 2010
By Thomas Carlin
The People (UK)
This is the dramatic moment that former senior Government policy adviser Michael Leach was arrested for allegedly having sex with three children in Cambodia.
Leach, 50, who worked closely with Ministers at the Department of Trade and Industry, sits in handcuffs at the end of a double bed while a detective reassures two of the alleged victims, girls aged 10 and 12. The third girl is 15.
Londoner Leach who once attended a Commonwealth Summit with Labour Minister for Energy Stephen Timms was seized last Sunday at a guesthouse about 15 miles outside the capital Phnom Penh.
He is alleged to have paid the mother of one of the children £3,000 for a week-long sex contract. Leach appeared at Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Thursday where he was charged along with the 40-year-old mother of one of the children.
A 46-year-old taxi driver who allegedly helped arrange for Leach to have sex with the girls was also arrested, along with the 45-year-old guesthouse owner.
The People has learned that Leach represented Britain at trade fares across the globe and worked as a senior adviser at the Department of Trade specialising in international telecommunications {until 2005.
That year he was arrested in Phnom Penh and held in custody for 10 hours on suspicion of sexually abusing five youngsters at a run-down orphanage called the Lighthouse. He was released without charge. He returned to Britain in 2006 and joined the communications watchdog OFCOM.
He was OFCOM's representative at a major European conference that year.
His latest arrest follows an investigation lasting several days by Cambodia's juvenile protection unit.
Cops believe he handed over thousands of dollars for a week-long sex contract.
He was followed out of a bar in the town and allegedly seen by undercover investigators buying children's underpants and sweets before going back to the guesthouse where he was arrested.
Leach had allegedly been staying in the room with the two youngest girls for six days.
Major Keo Thea, director of the municipal Anti-Human Trafficking and Juvenile Protection Unit, told The People: Leach is under primary charges of purchasing child prostitution, while the other three face primary charges of being accomplices to the purchase of child prostitution.
Cambodia-based child {protection group Action Pour Les Enfants want Cambodian authorities to send Leach back to Britain to face trial for his alleged offences.
Under Section 72 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003, a person can be prosecuted in the UK for child sex offences committed overseas.
But Britain does not have an extradition treaty with Cambodia.
Christine Beddoe, director of child protection agency ECPAT UK, said: We would like to see the police and CPS working with their Cambodian counterparts to identify what legal measures could be used to bring Leach back to the UK and tried in a British court if that is what the Cambodian's want.
Nearly 40 Westerners have been arrested in Cambodia in the last year for alleged child sex offences.
Leach, 50, who worked closely with Ministers at the Department of Trade and Industry, sits in handcuffs at the end of a double bed while a detective reassures two of the alleged victims, girls aged 10 and 12. The third girl is 15.
Londoner Leach who once attended a Commonwealth Summit with Labour Minister for Energy Stephen Timms was seized last Sunday at a guesthouse about 15 miles outside the capital Phnom Penh.
He is alleged to have paid the mother of one of the children £3,000 for a week-long sex contract. Leach appeared at Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Thursday where he was charged along with the 40-year-old mother of one of the children.
A 46-year-old taxi driver who allegedly helped arrange for Leach to have sex with the girls was also arrested, along with the 45-year-old guesthouse owner.
The People has learned that Leach represented Britain at trade fares across the globe and worked as a senior adviser at the Department of Trade specialising in international telecommunications {until 2005.
That year he was arrested in Phnom Penh and held in custody for 10 hours on suspicion of sexually abusing five youngsters at a run-down orphanage called the Lighthouse. He was released without charge. He returned to Britain in 2006 and joined the communications watchdog OFCOM.
He was OFCOM's representative at a major European conference that year.
His latest arrest follows an investigation lasting several days by Cambodia's juvenile protection unit.
Cops believe he handed over thousands of dollars for a week-long sex contract.
He was followed out of a bar in the town and allegedly seen by undercover investigators buying children's underpants and sweets before going back to the guesthouse where he was arrested.
Leach had allegedly been staying in the room with the two youngest girls for six days.
Major Keo Thea, director of the municipal Anti-Human Trafficking and Juvenile Protection Unit, told The People: Leach is under primary charges of purchasing child prostitution, while the other three face primary charges of being accomplices to the purchase of child prostitution.
Cambodia-based child {protection group Action Pour Les Enfants want Cambodian authorities to send Leach back to Britain to face trial for his alleged offences.
Under Section 72 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003, a person can be prosecuted in the UK for child sex offences committed overseas.
But Britain does not have an extradition treaty with Cambodia.
Christine Beddoe, director of child protection agency ECPAT UK, said: We would like to see the police and CPS working with their Cambodian counterparts to identify what legal measures could be used to bring Leach back to the UK and tried in a British court if that is what the Cambodian's want.
Nearly 40 Westerners have been arrested in Cambodia in the last year for alleged child sex offences.
18 comments:
Like we know, Cambodia is a paradise for child sex, they suck and got paid
What kind of a stupid foreigner
What kind of a stupid foreigner
He should be sent back to face a real prosecution and punishment in the UK!
Anet Khmer
if the law is----
the crime also is-----.
the people can commit the same crime
in any country,if there is a chance for them.
only in xmerland can they do such thing.
the uk should now have extradition treaty with cambodia so pedophile can be sent back to deal with the law. please no more excuses!
i told you cambodia need to implement the rule of law society asap! people will take advantage of cambodia; with the rule of law, they will think twice, really!
I am so sorry for the mother and the kid . I think they did that only because they needed money so bad. After Hun Sen got 100% controll of Cambodia, he lead the country down to hell . The rich get richer and the poor get poorer .
To 10:11 AM
This is not about the rule of law , it's about people breaking the law because one of them needs the money so she can servive and the other is a guy who has too much money to spend . Those 2 people could have got away if the law has no implementation.
Listen!
They lied in the article when writing that he was arrested outside Phnom Penh!
He became arrested in the WALKABOUT GUESTHOUSE Phnom Penh, Street 51 which is well known for child sex and drug selling.
EVERYBODY know this in Phnom Penh.
Just drive on Street 51 and have a look at the WALKABOUT. You will see only prostitutes and men looking for cheap (child(sex) and drugs.
Guess why they not write it is the WALKABOUT HOTEL in the article.
A powerfull General is protecting the Australian Owners of the WALKABOUT HOTEL so they can keep on seeling drugs and girls!
The Australian Owners opened beside the WALKABOUT a new Hotel. Guess whwere this money come from?
All Cambodians in Phnom Penh will agree with me that this WALKABOUT Hotel is a shame for the country.
Why Hun Sen or Bun Rany do not take action and allow the criminal activities from the Australien Owners?
The Foreigne Police has many reports about the WALKABOUT Hotel where you can buy sex and drugs.
Its a shame for the Country!
This bartard guy should be jaile and punished and paid for the compensation. He works on the law, eats on the law, sleeps on the law, walks on the law, gets benifit by the law, has a high position by the law, but he sits and shits on the law. hang him or shoot him.
I've been told your,we've to watch out from those foreigner that going to visited our country. Most of them they're go there looking for sex only. We've to keeps a close eyes on them.
About Child sex may Cambodian cruel peoples involving with Cambodian cruel Vampire Police to arrest foreigner to put them in jail, if want to get out from jail must be pay corrution for the Cambodian Vampire Police Officer, sometime the Vampire Police also kill the foreigner as well, I am Cambodian bor still scare Cambodian peoples, I hope the foreigner before decid go to holiday in Cambodia bmust be care full, I was in jail from date 5-5-2010 till date 19-6-2010 this year and it 2 Cambodians girls make up not real story to the Cambodians Vampire and paid bribe to with offer their body to the Cambodian cruel Vampire to locked up me, the Cambodians peoples after year 1975 to 1979 during Khmer Rough / Pol Pot regime under A cruel Vampire Yuonese / Vietnamese hidden faces behind the killing fields, so I just to remind the foreigner again and again to be care full before planning go holiday in Cambodia, if you have money go to holiday in China better than Cambodia,
This is a very Sad story from Cambodia again. I blame the dam parent and some parts CCP. The Fking father and Mother, They properly sit on theirs ass doing nothing. sell theirs kid for money. You support to protect your children. Also Government need to create jobs and help protect the people to become like this. This the million story I heard about forigner doing bad thing to ours people. Where is the NGO! Sent this story to the Parliment
This is Khmer land tell them to shout down the WALKABOUT GUESTHOUSE. Called Hun Sen Daughter she will help.
Hey! I do not against child sexabuse! But what age is alow to be maried in Cambodia?
Some girls get urgly by the 19 or20! and who going to mary them.
am so sorry for the mother and the kid . I think they did that only because they needed money so bad. After Hun Sen got 100% controll of Cambodia, he lead the country down to hell . The rich get richer and the poor get poorer .
To 10:11 AM
This is not about the rule of law , it's about people breaking the law because one of them needs the money so she can servive and the other is a guy who has too much money to spend . Those 2 people could have got away if the law has no implementation.
11:36 AM
11:36AM! but the first one just the victime of poornes and hungry! What a fair you want them to run fast as Toyata?
I've been told your,we've to watch out from those foreigner that going to visited our country. Most of them they're go there looking for sex only. We've to keeps a close eyes on them.
1:44 PM (SIC)
If MOST of the touris are going looking for sex! and you bane sex in the country your tourist industry is DOOM! Sorry Cambodia you have nothing to offer!
am so sorry for the mother and the kid . I think they did that only because they needed money so bad. After Hun Sen got 100% controll of Cambodia, he lead the country down to hell . The rich get richer and the poor get poorer .
To 10:11 AM
This is not about the rule of law , it's about people breaking the law because one of them needs the money so she can servive and the other is a guy who has too much money to spend . Those 2 people could have got away if the law has no implementation.
11:36 AM
11:36AM! but the first one just the victime of porvety and hunger! What's a fair, you want them to run as fast as Toyota?
Help solve the social problems, not just suppression and ordering!!!
10:24 PM
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